From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 12 0:35:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F183414C14 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA76742; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:35:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Warner Losh , Doug Russell , Wilko Bulte , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation References: <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> <20000111181029.A22816@futuresouth.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Jan 2000 09:35:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Matthew D. Fuller"'s message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:10:29 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: > I have a 386 SX/16 (no 387) with 4 megs of RAM and a 100 meg drive running > (presently) 2.1.5-RELEASE. When I installed it (out of morbid curiosity), > I built a kernel, which took about 6 hours. I'm now doing a (NFS) make > world of the latest RELENG_2_1_0 (nope, no buildworld on that branch. > Anyone wanna try backporting it? ;). It's now in Day 8 and building > .../usr.bin/f2c. It took approximately 7 hours to compile troff, > thrashing madly the whole time (something like 15 pageins/sec, as fast as > the disk would handle). This is with -O -pipe BTW. I'm expecting > perhaps 12-15 days for the entire make world. Fun for the whole family! > :) The moral of the story: don't use -pipe on low-memory systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message