From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 21 11:21:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10489 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 11:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca (tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10444 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 11:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taob@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12727; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:21:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:21:06 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Andrew Reilly cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worldstone Continued... In-Reply-To: <199803182302.KAA02826@gurney.reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message