Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:17:05 -0800 From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> To: Steven Hillis <evultrole@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update/sparc64 and buildworld statistics Message-ID: <46100531.90604@alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <340594530702211416l1a9d03k8051fc5d685f841b@mail.gmail.com> References: <340594530702211416l1a9d03k8051fc5d685f841b@mail.gmail.com>
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Steven Hillis wrote, on 2/21/2007 1:16 PM: Sorry for the long pause on this thread - Thunderbird's thread display was collapsed and I didn't see the additional posts. >> I'd still like to see what a quad Ultra 80 can do, though. :) Who has > access to one of these? > > I have one of these under my foot right now. 4x450 4GB memory, 2xScsi > drives. I went ahead a did a fresh install to get rid of all the weird Thanks very much! Were /usr and /usr/obj on different filesystems and/or different disks? > Standard "/usr/bin/time -h make -j5 buildworld" was somewhere around 1h45m > (sorry, I didn't write it down the first time), so that's probably the best > you'll get. 1h45m is terrific compared to some of the others, but I can't say that I have a stastically significant sample yet, by any means. > However, after enabling ccache, while the first run was roughly the same > (couple minutes longer), the second run (after caching) gave these results: > > 49m14.74s real 1h28m39.70s user 1h4m8.45s sys Added to my worldstone statistics: http://www.alaska.net/~royce/freebsd/sparc64/worldstone/ > So, that sort of breaks the 1 hour limit? I can't imagine there will enough > source changes between updates to add 10 minutes to the compile time, but I > hear people have had some trouble with ccache and buildworld so whether it > solves the problem or not seems sort of up in the air. I've written Colin to ask his opinion. Can anyone else comment on the ccache/world interaction problem? This thread seems to indicate that some issues have been resolved: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061839.html > dmesg, if you care: > real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) What branch were you tracking? I try to note that in both the dmesg and worldstone info. In the meantime, I've added your dmesg to the archive as u80_unknown_unknown. Terrific, Steven -- thanks for testing this! Royce -- Royce D. Williams - IP Engineering, ACS personal: [first]@alaska.net - PGP: 3FC087DB/1776A531 work: [first.last]@acsalaska.net - http://www.tycho.org/royce/ "Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain." - Henry Ford
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