From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 26 23:16:12 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA04889 for current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:16:12 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA04880 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:16:10 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA10983; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:15:14 -0800 Message-Id: <199502270715.XAA10983@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: my system has slowed down In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:51:46 +0100." <199502270651.HAA29424@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:15:13 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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 ==============================================