Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:30 -0500 From: Jon Myers <myersjw@alfredstate.edu> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: general slowness and Q's.. Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030213145019.01aa3670@mail2.alfredstate.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I recently acquired an AlphaServer 800 5/333 (EV56) w/320megs ram. The system seems to run about the same speed as my PentiPro 200 as far as buildworld and buildkernel go. Is this normal? Anything else needing to be done to these alphas with SRM to get them to go a little faster? buildworld took 4 hours, 22 minutes. buildkernel (generic) takes 37 minutes. (buildworld on my single ppro200 w/IDE drives takes 4 hours, 7 minutes) Its running 4.7-Stable. Are there vast improvements for Alpha in 5.0-R? Another odd thing is I've pulled all the drives, except for one 9 gig as dka0. bootup sees 15 devices (da0 - da14) all pointing to this same drive, same bus, same lun, but different targets. If I install more drives I cant seem to find them in the dmesg anywhere.. so not sure how to label them. (have a pile of these 9 gig drives, so normally they should appear with the same model number and such, and no way to tell them apart other than from the device numbers which seem to be a little off at the moment). The SCSI interface is whatever came with the box (NOT using RAID on this.. don't have the controller for it). This box was just handed over to us at the telecomm office because the relatively new guys at the computer center got rid of all their powerful machines, and replaced with P2 and P3 windows boxes. (most of these alphas were running VMS). Any ideas/suggestions? This isnt going to be a mission critical box, so I suppose I could load 5.0 on it, but wanted to find out as its pretty much "out of the box" at this moment (have not installed SQL server, httpd, or other software thats planned for this box yet). - - - Jon Myers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.0.2.1.2.20030213145019.01aa3670>