From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 00:34:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B893616A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D2043D49 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:34:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 606CD52C13; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:36:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:36:06 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Aaron P. Martinez" Message-ID: <20041030003606.GA60037@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1099096228.18749.149.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1099096228.18749.149.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld.........24 hours???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:34:41 -0000 --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:30:28PM -0500, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: > I have an amd k6II 500 machine with 32 megs of ram, 20 gig 7200 rpm hard > drive which i just installed fresh with FBSD 5.3RC1 on the whole disk, > no boot loader. =20 >=20 > I cvsuped the sources yesterday around 5 pm CDT and then started a make > buildworld. It is now 7:15 pm CDT the following day and it is still > grinding away... Can it really take this long? The hard drive is > grinding i can see from the hdd led but top reports that the box isn't > under that heavy of a load..=20 That's not unreasonable - the performance killer will be your lack of memory, which means that you'll be swapping a lot while compiling. Kris --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBguH1Wry0BWjoQKURAt7FAKDv/gjktITsK26uByEGvKDS8NyxCwCdFXIf YHbgMhYbLIajaHaINDHwtuw= =24Q6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--