Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:46:47 -0400 From: "Jason Cribbins" <freebsdlist@kibserv.org> To: "James Long" <list@ns.museum.rain.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make world lasts longer than the energizer bunny Message-ID: <003701c1eca2$b616f720$15841bd8@kibserv.org> References: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org> <20020425124811.A3066@ns.museum.rain.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Long" <list@ns.museum.rain.com> To: "Jason Cribbins" <freebsdlist@kibserv.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:48 PM Subject: Re: make world lasts longer than the energizer bunny : > 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. : : Tip 1: run the make in the background. For instance I have a : script called /root/mbw which does a little prep, and the : "make buildworld" step. I invoke it thusly: : : /root/mbw >mbw.out 2>&1 & : That is a good idea. Thanks : That makes /root/mbw run, sending its standard output and standard error : to mbw.out, and runs it in the background, so that I don't have to keep : the ssh (or telnet) session active for the duration of the make. : : To check the progress, inspect mbw.out, perhaps with : : tail -f mbw.out : : : Tip 2: I haven't done a lot of build worlds, but by the procedure I use, : at some point, you're going to have to log in directly on the console of : the keyboardless box. If you have it set up to use a serial console to : bypass the non-functional keyboard interface which I am inferring, that : will work, but the make installword is best done in single-user mode, : when telnet/ssh are not at your disposal. I would think a 486 with a : fried keyboard interface would be worth about the same as a first-class : postage stamp. Perhaps you could upgrade to a P90 or better? They're : cheap also, probably will mount in the same case, and might even use : the same 72-pin RAM, if your 486 uses 72-pin memory. : I have one slower than this one that serves my dhcp and dns queries. This operation is a low traffic on anyhow. The only box that I want to be sure is fast is the web and mysql servers since they are the most heavily used. Mostly I operate these on a donation budget....people donate hardware (working or otherwise) and I try to salvage as much as I can to make some working boxes. : Listen to Kris on time estimates. My PII-400 (192M) or dual 450 (704M) : machines build in about 60-90 minutes. : Accroding to the stats from Kris it might be faster to install fresh from FTP again :) Which is what I might do for this one box its original intended purpose has not be implemented yet. By thte time I got to working on gettting this box into production the software I chose to use is not better suited for 4.5 than 4.4....I am only doing make world because I thought it would faster and easier than a fresh install. : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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