Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:16:00 +0100 From: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600 Message-ID: <4638E370.5080606@goodforbusiness.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <28edec3c0705021139h45c785c2s915941c0afb93b5d@mail.gmail.com> References: <28edec3c0705021139h45c785c2s915941c0afb93b5d@mail.gmail.com>
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Mars G. Miro wrote: > Greetz, > > I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way > Opteron (dmesg shows 16 CPUs) w/c has 32G RAM. FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 runs > fine on it despite: > - 'reboot' doesnt work, machine just hangs in there. > - front USB ports wont work for a USB keyboard, just use da ports at > da back. > > I've read a lot of threads in da past (and da BSDCan 2006 paper) > regarding mfs on /usr/src and /usr/obj to speed up buildworlds, > unfortunately it doesnt seem to improve things. I've tried both a > malloc and swap based async non-softupdates mfs (and rebooted da box > every after) but my buildworld speeds seem to be just da same as I do > it on da MPT SAS disk w/c is just around ~18mins. When you have 32GB of RAM and 16 CPUs I'm not sure this applies. Is 18 minutes really too long to wait? :-) > Yeah, i know there's da tmpfs project but I was just wondering if I > may have missed somthing in my mfs adventures. > PS. s/da/the/g (please!) Dominic
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