Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:15:13 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: my system has slowed down Message-ID: <199502270715.XAA10983@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:51:46 %2B0100." <199502270651.HAA29424@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> >Somewhere in the time between Feb 17th and today my two daily world builds >stopped from working. Up to then I started world build at 7 a.m. and had >finished about 5 p.m. After that I built a kernel and rebooted the system. >This all was steered by cron. In the past days this suddenly stopped >working. The kernel build was done in midst of the (still running) world >build and thus the world build never finished. > >But I see a noticeable slow down in compiles. The machine is a 486-DX2/66 >with 32MB of memory and two IDE Quantum Maverick 540 MB drives. > >I cannot image that some addition to the source tree caused such a tremendous >increase in build time >12 hours (compared to 10 before). What else could >be the cause for this? (fragmentation?) > >--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de >FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Feb 26 >20:27:39 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386 There is a current problem with caching filesystem meta-data that is hampering performance. John Dyson is working on a fix. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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