From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 18 17:55:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15146 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA15140 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@cdsnet.net) Received: (qmail 5179 invoked from network); 19 Mar 1998 01:55:02 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail-01.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 19 Mar 1998 01:55:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:55:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Andrew Reilly cc: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worldstone Continued... In-Reply-To: <199803182302.KAA02826@gurney.reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG YOu know, I did this once, with everything in RAM, but don't have the message anymore. However, it was before all the buildworld tuning, and the parallelizing of the build process, so it would be extremely out of date. But I think I'm going to try it. I can wedge another 512MB in this DEC box, and fire it up... Maybe tonight. On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On 18 Mar, Hugh LaMaster wrote: > > Then, you might see that number drop even further. The goal, in my > > mind, is do to a complete buildworld and installworld in less than > > an hour. > > It would be interesting to see a "speed of light" figure for > buildworld. I note that there are some people on this list with access > to machines with seriously big DRAM (.5G?) on their systems. I doubt > that any one compile operation exercises more than a few Meg, with > -pipe. > > Does anyone have a system that can attempt a buildworld with src and > obj in mfs, mounted noasync (if that makes any difference)? > > (It may not be important. It certainly appears that the 1:20 figure is > getting pretty close to being a completely CPU-limited process.) > > Has anyone on the Alpha port project timed a buildworld? (If the world > can be built there yet.) > > -- > Andrew > > "The steady state of disks is full." > -- Ken Thompson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message