Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:47:00 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian McGovern <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_5 Branch : January 21 ? Message-ID: <20020120064700.GM21973@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <200201200643.g0K6hC994495@spoon.beta.com> References: <20020120035153.GI21973@freebsdmall.com> <200201200643.g0K6hC994495@spoon.beta.com>
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:43:12AM -0500, Brian McGovern wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > 11 hours 45 minutes on my PWS 500a on a 7200RPM UDMA133 IDE disk. > > The 5200RPM SCSI disks are slower. > > > > ad0: 76345MB <MAXTOR 6L080J4> [155114/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA133 > > > > - Murray > > These times seem pretty high. In the 3.x days, I had a dual P2/450 w/1GB of > RAM that I stuck the src/build tree in MFS, and a make release was > ~3 hours. > > But, it sounds like you're more interested in disk performance than low > build times. Once I get in enough gear (read: my processor) for my Athlon > 1800+, I'll let you know what I can do with a GB of PC2100 RAM these days. I don't think that will really help. We know that x86 boxes can scream through a release. I was trying to find out why the Alpha is so slow. All of my AMD machines build world in about 30 minutes, and can build a release in just a few hours. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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