From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Jan 19 13:51: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BED37B416; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03007; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:50:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3C49EA37.1090601@owt.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:50:47 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_5 Branch : January 21 ? References: <20020119015249.GD18200@freebsdmall.com> <20020119084007.A10312@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020119111145.GL18200@freebsdmall.com> <20020119190247.A12050@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-qa.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-qa> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-qa> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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. > > I was testing some ATA-66/100 systems and I hit a limit doing buildworlds. The build speed became much faster when I used 2 or more HDs. It was really important to get /usr/src and /usr/obj and different HDs. I was dropping buildworld times on a dual 866 coppermines from something like 40 minutes to 26 minutes by doing this. I ended up thinking about U2W but decided not to spend the money. The 3 ATA-100 drives cost what a single 30GB lvd scsi cost. I log all of my builds and eventually ended up with the log and system on one drive and /usr/src and /usr/obj on the other two. I figured splitting things up would also benefit a scsi system because it would take advantage of more of the bandwidth from the controller to the HDs. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message