From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 00:55:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B7916A41F for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:55:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EF843D49 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:55:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBF0tLSP045058; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jBF0tKBl045057; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:55:19 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Kent Stewart Message-ID: <20051215005519.GA44946@thought.org> References: <20051214171014.GB37495@thought.org> <7088318B-3141-44E6-9F50-CB51F6CAE501@mac.com> <20051214211749.GJ41870@thought.org> <200512141342.22051.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512141342.22051.kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fquestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:55:23 -0000 On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:42:21PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:17 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:44:40PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > > > On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >>You forgot to tell us which VIA chipset or MB-- there are lots > > > >> and lots of VIA-based motherboards around, with a wide variety > > > >> of hardware. > > > > Here's his AMD chip and m'board. The great thing about the > > unix-way{tm} is that the latest and greatest works with the > > slower processors. My (used) HP boxes are happy, good > > performers at 400MHz, e.g. ...But I'm finally learning things- > > Gnome and -KDE and this does take more punch. Besides, I'm > > looking foirward to having a make world happen during a > > coffee break :-) > > > > gary > > > > > > > > ECS 741GX Motherboard and AMD 2800+. > > You must take long coffee breaks :). Here are times for 6-r and 6-stable > > RELENG_6-release > 2803.276u 556.721s 1:01:03.52 91.7% 3728+2613k 17698+2443io > 1315pf+0w > 2872.010u 543.192s 1:08:04.53 83.6% 3726+2594k 27248+3651io > 1983pf+0w > > You can see that the buildworld required an hour plus on a 2800+. If > there are ways to make it compile faster, I would really like to know > how. All that is turned on is "NO_PROFILE=true". > > Kent > Good grief. I could be hallucinating, but it seems that a make world finished in about 2.5 hours on this box. This is 3/4th GB memory and 700+MHz. This was with 5.3 here. Does it make any sense to use O3 when compiling stuff, when stuff includes world/kernel/drivers? Does upping the optimization make any significant difference in system performance, in other words? Kent? Anybody? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix