From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 20:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04179 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04171 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09092; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009090; Wed Apr 8 03:26:51 1998 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:21:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates vs. async In-Reply-To: <351C4421.C01345A0@giovannelli.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sorry for the long delay... soft updates leaves you however with a disk that is consistant after a crash or power fail. it is also much FASTER in some cases.. (but not all). do you have /usr/tmp async or softdep (for example) (or wherever gcc puts it's tmp files..) julian On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > I tried several make world in these days trying different configurations > to see which of them works better... > > I saw that async is performing better than softupdates (is it possible > ???) ... infact : > > **** -j4 build+install X softup ***** > ---- Start Make World : Thu Mar 26 21:56:33 GMT 1998 > ---- End Make World : Thu Mar 26 23:41:36 GMT 1998 > > 1h 45m > > > **** -j4 build+install X async ***** > ---- Start Make World : Fri Mar 27 07:02:58 GMT 1998 > ---- End Make World : Fri Mar 27 08:26:35 GMT 1998 > > 1h 24m > > > **** -j4 build+install notcl noprofi noperl noX async ***** > ---- Start Make World : Fri Mar 27 10:43:23 GMT 1998 > ---- End Make World : Fri Mar 27 11:56:25 GMT 1998 > > 1h 13m > > > **** -j4 world notcl noprofi noperl noX async ***** > ---- Start Make World : Fri Mar 27 20:29:01 GMT 1998 > ---- End Make World : Fri Mar 27 21:41:02 GMT 1998 > > 1h 12m > > > Now considering that my box is a Pentium 2 (300mhz) with a2940uw > (onboard) and two hd wide scsi /usr/src and /usr/obj on two different > drives... it seems to me that I am quite slow considering the times I > saw in this area... > > Any suggests ? > > -- > > Regards... > > Gianmarco > "Unix expert since yesterday" > > http://www.giovannelli.it > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message