From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Jan 19 10: 2:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C16637B416; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0JI2lG12150; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:02:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:02:47 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Murray Stokely Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4_5 Branch : January 21 ? Message-ID: <20020119190247.A12050@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020119015249.GD18200@freebsdmall.com> <20020119084007.A10312@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020119111145.GL18200@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020119111145.GL18200@freebsdmall.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:11:45AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:11:45AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:40:07AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Given that I still haven't been able to create a working RC2 for Alpha > > I would consider this a bit ambitious. And how are things like Alpha > > X11 and ports doing? > > I haven't taken a look at where jhb left off with X11, but I hope to > this weekend. I have sent Peter at least 5 emails about the Alpha > ports cluster in the past 2 weeks, but the machines are still not > available. Mind you, that several of my emails included an offer to > personally drive down to Yahoo! and do whatever grunt work is > necessary to setup the machines. Maybe ps can help? He works for Y! too IIRC. > I put a new 7200RPM disk into my PWS500 and got my make world time > down to just over 3 hours. As an exercise in patience I've just > started a "make release" to see how long the build will take. Is disk IIRC it something like 6 hours or so on my DS10 > I/O this slow on all FreeBSD/Alpha machines, or is it just mine? > bonnie++ results are pathetic compared to any x86 box on my network. IDE or SCSI disk? I have not tested/compared IOspeed to be honest. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message