Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 16:16:24 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, mike@smith.net.au Cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@plutotech.com, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Message-ID: <199810040616.QAA26536@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Yes, the default configuration may be much slower than mine.
>
>I can definitely back your basic point ('make world' is CPU bound) up.
>On a 4-way Xeon system with slow disks we were still able to get down
>around 40 minutes.
Er, that shows that it is i/o bound on systems with so much CPU. I
got it down to 75 minutes on 1-way K6-233 with 1 IDE disk before it
was bloated by perl5 and transition to elf.
Bruce
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