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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > 2.5 hours seems a little high and would seem to indicate that you're
> > building world under a kernel that has all the debugging options enabled.
> > Could you make your kernel config available?
> 
> 	Yeah, I recall that -CURRENT on a Mobile PII 366Mhz took the
> same amount of time so I would imagine the P4 would be faster since I
> remember PIII running at 800Mhz or so would take about 2 hours and the
> Athlon K7 at 1.2Ghz was about a little over an hour.  I'm using the
> standard GENERIC kernel and do have the debugging options enabled. 

Turning off the debugging options (especially WITNESS) can have a dramatic
effect on performance.  Give it a spin.  :-)

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research