From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Nov 5 17:35:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from southpass.baynetworks.com (ns2.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D2414D3D for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomma@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (h016b.s86b1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.1.107]) by southpass.baynetworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA25936; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com (fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com [134.177.110.46]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA03826; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from carrera.engwest (carrera.engwest.baynetworks.com) by fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) Received: from localhost by carrera.engwest (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA20438; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:31:21 -0800 To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 14:56:15 -0800" <199911052256.OAA00440@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199911052256.OAA00440@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92 on Emacs 19.28 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19991105173121E.thomma@baynetworks.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:31:21 -0800 From: Tamiji Homma X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 11 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Under 40 minutes is very hard on a current intel architecture box; the > 4-way Xeon 400/256 that we have here will do about 39 even on -current > as of a couple of weeks ago, with everything except $DESTDIR on an MFS. > To go much faster will require more memory bandwidth, or possibly > faster CPUs with more cache (not so sure about that part). So, I should be happy about -current buildworld/world 49/54 minutes with K6-III/550 on single IDE drive ;-) Tammy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message