From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 08:31:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08285 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08253 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:31:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@partsnow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id IAA19945; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:28:58 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from wildeweb(192.168.100.10) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma019943; Sat, 17 Jan 98 08:28:38 -0800 Message-ID: <34C0DC6E.8AD7D2AB@partsnow.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:29:34 -0800 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@partsnow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: efinley@castlenet.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world times References: <34bcf82d.3063632@castlenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Elliot Finley wrote: > > I am getting a make world time of about 2.5 hours with the complete > 2.2-stable source tree. This is on a PII 233 64M SCSI system. Is > this normal? Is there any way to speed it up? > -- > Elliot Finley (efinley@castlenet.com) > President > Hiawatha Coal Company PMFJI, but do you realise what you are asking? You're rebuilding EVERY program in the distribution from raw ASCII C-source, and it takes a whole two and a half hours to do so. Awww.... Jeez, guy. My first computer only 19 years ago was an Intel SDK-86 with 2K of RAM, and it worked at EIGHT Megahertz. Seriously, here are three suggestions: 1) prune the install tree and remove unnecessary programs 2) change the gcc flags to kill the console messages below fatal error status. 3) eliminate other running services (X, webserver, etc.) -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo