From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 15 9:17:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7D314EC4 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 09:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.224]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06214; Sat, 15 May 1999 10:17:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <373D9E24.8C5553A1@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:17:40 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD References: <199905150703.AAA06709@usr09.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Let's review: > > > > Sun E250, 1x 300 Mhz UltraSPARC, a boatload of big, fast UWSCSI-3 drives. > > cd ~/builder/engr/src; make all: 44 minutes > > > > Sun Ultra5, 1x 333 Mhz UltraSPARC, one 4.3 GB Ultra-IDE drive. > > cd ~/builder/engr/src; make all: 49 minutes > > > > Doing that "make all," and the associated little makes, is why my > > workstation exists. What's even better is that we can tie them all > > into a "cluster" using pmake; this drops the "make all" time to > > 18 minutes at night when the office is quiet. > > > > I can buy a 13GB UltraIDE drive for the Ultra5, or my FreeBSD box, for > > $180, at a place close enough I can go there during lunch. Where's > > the win? > > Where is the "-j 12"? I see no "-j 12" here... With pmake? Not needed, it checks its configuration file and farms jobs out to all available machines on the network. We're still building ours in SLC, when it's fully staffed we'll have a 2-cpu E250 and 18 Ultra 5s. All 18 of the Ultra 5s will be using IDE disks and running 5 pmake jobs per machine; the E250 runs 16 pmake jobs. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message