Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:21:06 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worldstone Continued... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980321141849.27498K-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca> In-Reply-To: <199803182302.KAA02826@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> It would be interesting to see a "speed of light" figure for
> buildworld. I note that there are some people on this list with
> access to machines with seriously big DRAM (.5G?) on their systems.
> I doubt that any one compile operation exercises more than a few
> Meg, with -pipe.
If you have that much RAM to spare on a system, make a 384MB
memory filesystem, and stick /var/tmp, /usr/obj and /usr/src on it.
Then try a buildworld and see how fast it goes. /usr/obj and /usr/src
should fit in 384MB.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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