From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 20:38:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14AE716A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:38:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org) Received: from mindfields.energyhq.es.eu.org (73.Red-213-97-200.pooles.rima-tde.net [213.97.200.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F0C43D45 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:38:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org) Received: from scienide.energyhq.es.eu.org (scienide.energyhq.es.eu.org [192.168.100.1]) by mindfields.energyhq.es.eu.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7CB3123FDD; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:37:49 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: Mikhail Teterin Message-Id: <20050831223749.6db2ccc3.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200508301223.20626.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200508281326.j7SDQGfc073329@blue.virtual-estates.net> <20050829191927.6694a969.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <200508301223.20626.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing 6.0-BETA3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:38:43 -0000 On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:23:20 -0400 Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > If the card is a 16bit pcmcia card make sure the bridge is set to 16bit. > > How do I do that? On my old Thinkpad you had to access the BIOS and there were pcmcia settings in one of the menus. It was set to 16bit, changing it made it possible to use a realtek8139-based cardbus card. This was in the 5.0-CURRENT days, btw, so YMMV. > > I wouldn't blame WITNESS on this. Laptops, especially old ones, have > > incredibly slow disks. The buildworld process is heavily i/o bounded, > > my bet is on the disk subsystem. > > According to systat and top, the CPU is never idle -- as would've been the > case, if the I/O were the limiting factor. The Sys-component of `systat -vm' > was steadily above 50%. > > Now that I have a witness-less kernel, the builds are, indeed, I/O bound. Out of curiosity, how long does it take now for a buildworld run? The only full world build I ever did on my old laptop was for OpenBSD and I left overnight. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1