From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 3 07:02:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02709 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 07:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kosh.cococo.net (kosh.cococo.net [208.134.89.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02703 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 07:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kosh@kosh.cococo.net) Received: from localhost (kosh@localhost) by kosh.cococo.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA07628; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:03:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:03:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kelley L." Reply-To: "Kelley L." To: "Nguyen HM (Mike)" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make (build)world go faster In-Reply-To: <332F90115D96D0119CD500805FEA976B0178C24F@HSCMS01> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nguyen HM (Mike) wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading the mailing lists, and people are claiming they can > get make worlds down to around 100 minutes or so. Can anyone give me > some hints (besides the /usr/obj and /usr/src on different spindles > trick, I only have one disk, but /usr/src is mounted from another I suspect /usr/src mounted from another system is your problem. > system). I haven't been able to go below 4hrs or so. I have a P2/233, > Asus P2L97S, 128mb of RAM, and a Seagate ST15150W (original Barracuda). > I am running X, but I don't do anything else on the system while the > build is going on. > I'm running a fairly similar setup, Acer MotherBoard w/BX chipset, 128Mb Ram, P2/266, UDMA IDE Drive(only the one). I do have in the /etc/make.conf CFLAGS= -O -pipe options enabled. make buildworld took 99 minutes, just last night. If I get a chance, I will try it with the noatime and async mount options and see what I can get, but I can't believe that the difference between a PII/233 and PII/266 can be that significant. later Kelley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message