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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:40:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Subject: Re: makeing world
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On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:

> Annelise Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:
> > 
> > > I read someplace that it's best to drop into single user mode
> > > to make world, Is this fact?
> > >
> > > If so, How does one log the make process.
> > > I would normally do: make <whatever> |& tee make.err
> > > This don't work in single user mode. (Unless I did something wrong)
> > 
> > In single user mode you have to mount the swap partition(s) with
> > swapon -a
> > before you do the make world.
> > 
> 
> Ok Thanks.
> All I did was: shutdown now, make world. this time.
> So far it has been going for ~9 hours, Hopefully it will not eat
> my source tree this time.
> 
> I did not do: swapon -a
> Does this mean that it's working soley in memory now??

Yes, I think so.  The benefit of single user mode is probably also
(or primarily) that there's more memory available.  I had 16 megs and
it failed without the swap partitions mounted.

> Maybe thats why it's taking so long, I've only got 8megs in this
> 486DX-33 system. :(
> 
> I have saved your suggestions, and will look into thier uses on
> the next make world.
> Thank you.
> 
> >
> > I used make world >& make.out& to get a "make.out" file recording
> > the process.  I think I typed csh first; probably you would need
> > to do that with the command you used as it's probably a csh command.
> > 
> > However you can make world without going into single user mode...I'm
> > not sure but I think the benefit of single-user mode is that there
> > are fewer processes running to use swap.  I thought it was rather
> > interesting to not do it in single user mode because the machine could
> > continue to serve web pages and allow me to log in from home and look
> > at what was going on (or you could log in on another virtual terminal)--
> > I ran swapinfo now and then and did tail -f make.out to see what was
> > going on.  make.out ends up over 3.5 megabytes.  vmstat might also be
> > interesting (as well as ps axl) although I suppose pulling up the
> > carrots to see how they're growing prolongs the process.
> >
> 
> Welp, I have no users (private system), So I'm not concerned about
> serving anything, Although it would be nice to be able to access
> the system while it's building, There is no NEED for it!
> 
> My hopes are that it at least completes without eating my source
> tree again.
> 
> -Enjoy
> Gary
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