From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 17 02:50:15 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA06823 for current-outgoing; Wed, 17 May 1995 02:50:15 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA06816 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 02:50:09 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA11165; Wed, 17 May 1995 02:49:39 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505170949.CAA11165@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Enthusiasm boost: make world works on 386SX16 4Mb To: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 02:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au In-Reply-To: <199505170932.TAA15908@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at May 17, 95 07:32:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1625 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Feeling down because your Pentium 90 complains about syntax errors in > the latest sysinstall? Worried about your slow Internet connection? Fooey! > > Gain a special warmth from the knowledge that FreeBSD-current (as of > 1995-05-09 20:57) compiles from scratch in a mere 6 days non-stop on > a 386SX16 with 4Mb ram, IDE disk, vnconfig'd swap space and NFS mounted > /usr/src and /usr/obj. We're talking 140 hours, give or take a few. Only 32 times slower than a P54C-90 with fast local disks and 32MB of memory. Wonder what you payed for that SX16 system 5 years ago when you got it :-) :-). > Be happy to know that every type of swap-in/swap-out/page-in/page-out/vm-fault > code sequence was exercised thousands of times in a memory starved environment. > > Be not indifferent to the fact that it still ran well enough while compiling > to allow a few vmstats and pstats and the occasional 'man vnconfig'. Key > echo was fine, most of the time. :-) > > 2.0.5 is looking really solid to me! No hangs, glitches or weird things, and > all my swap space stayed usable. Prepare for pats on the back all round! Glad to here that you like it!!! > Stephen. > > PS. Those of you with a trivia fixation can enjoy the following: > 'make world' caused 60 million wdc0 interrupts and 6 million ed0 interrupts. Humm.. to bad the PCI code is broken in this area, it would be interesting to compare the number of interrupts to a scsi system running make world. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD