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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


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