Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:43:43 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Jason Cribbins <freebsdlist@kibserv.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world lasts longer than the energizer bunny Message-ID: <20020425194343.GA1743@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org> References: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0400, Jason Cribbins wrote: > What is the time frame on make world. > I started make world on my 4.4 BSD box after syncing the source tree with > cvsup (wasn't that fun figuring out for the first time) > We are now on hour 43 in the process. > I know something like this is going to take time ...especially on a 486, but > what sort of time frame are we talking? I would have guessed that a modern > computer could do this in 4-5 hours and a slow one like mine might take > closer to 20 hours...but I seem to be way off. > Is this sort of thing measured in days, weeks or months? For a '486 I would guess 24-48 hours (depending on how much RAM you have.) > This is a keyboardless box (something fried on motherboard long ago) that I > had to initiate the make world through telnet on a windoze box. If I had > know it was going to take this much time I would have telneted from another > freebsd box. My windoze machines typically need to be rebooted every few > days to clean up memory leaks. > I might be in trouble here. > > If it helps make world is presently compiling ping, ping6 and rlogind as I > type this...am I even close to being done? Yes, that means that you are nearing the end of it. My guess is that you are something like 80-85% through. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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