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Date:      Sat, 29 May 2004 08:36:51 -0400
From:      Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Matt <mathewbr@adelphia.net>
Subject:   Re: build world in 4.9 ?
Message-ID:  <40B883E3.7080800@vindaloo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040521154224.898345D08@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20040521154224.898345D08@ptavv.es.net>

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Kevin Oberman wrote:

>>From: "Matt" <mathewbr@adelphia.net>
>>Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:01:21 -0400
>>Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>>
>>Thanks for the replies to my "Is The List Active Post" Ingrid and Liam.
>>
>>I've got an AMD K6-2 500 with FreeBSD 4.9 and a CMD ATA 100 (Siig)
>>Controller installed and 256MB SD100 RAM with a 40GB UDMA 100 HDD.
>>I went to BSD because RHat 9 would not recognize the drives attached to my
>>Siig or my Highpoint ATA controllers as ATA/UDMA 100 without doing major
>>surgery, the board is a FIC 503+ and only provides ATA/UDMA 33.
>>I'm in the process of running "buildworld" after updating my src/ports and
>>have customized a Kernel for the Processor prior to my *buildworld* attempt.
>>
>>Question: Does anybody have any idea how long it might take to finish
>>*buildworld* on this system, been going for about 3hrs now.
>>    
>>
>
>I have a very similar system (K6@450) and it takes about 3.7 hours to
>buildworld. This is a huge improvement on my old laptop with a 100 MHz
>P2 which took pretty much all day to buildworld.
>  
>
When I do a make buildworld I usually do:

     # make buildworld > /tmp/buildworld.log 2>&1 &
     # tail -f /tmp/buildworld.log

You can roughly gauge the progress by looking at what it's compiling at 
any given moment. When it gets to bits in the .../usr.sbin  directory 
it's pretty close to done.

-- chris


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