From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 13:10:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6BD37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3PKAWq28344 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:10:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h53n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.53]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA19101 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:10:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 1774 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Apr 2002 19:43:43 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:43:43 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Jason Cribbins Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world lasts longer than the energizer bunny Message-ID: <20020425194343.GA1743@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Jason Cribbins , questions@freebsd.org References: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message