From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 23 12:52:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (gargoyle.bazzle.com [206.103.246.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8CC315070 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejc@bazzle.com) Received: (qmail 50390 invoked from network); 23 Apr 1999 19:49:35 -0000 Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (206.103.246.189) by gargoyle.bazzle.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 1999 19:49:35 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:49:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Chris Piazza Cc: Andrew Heybey , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SMP nerd toy report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > On 22-Apr-99 Andrew Heybey wrote: > > > I have been very pleased with it so far. I installed 3.1-RELEASE for > > now. At 300MHz (66MHz FSB), my worldstone (CFLAGS="-O -pipe", > > make -j8 buildworld, softupdates, /usr/src & /usr/obj on the same > > partition of a Maxtor IDE disk) is about 1:15. > > > > At 450MHz (100MHz FSB) "make -j8 buildworld" takes about 0:55. (I > > know, bad hacker. I promise not to submit any PRs unless they can be > > duplicated at 300MHz.) I expect that if I got a second disk for > > /usr/obj that the build would really fly. > > > > All in all, I'm a happy nerd. > > > Hmm... IMO that's not a very good speed, though it might prove how I/O based > buildworld is. My K6-2 300 (100mhz FSB) with 96 megs of ram does a buildworld > in 75-80 minutes without any '-j' flags, and this is a single processor! > Hello A $70 celeron 300A clocked at 450Mhz and 100Mhz FSB, 128MB RAM. buildworld as of 4/22 takes 50 minutes. ejc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message