From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 10:46:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D9637B408 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15P6GH-0000Vg-00; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:46:25 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6OHkPF72036; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:46:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:46:24 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Kent Stewart Cc: Jason Andresen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait) Message-ID: <20010724184624.B71800@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010724180907.A71575@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B5DAECF.E9FE622D@mitre.org> <3B5DB1FA.1B894F9E@urx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3B5DB1FA.1B894F9E@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:35:54AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:35:54AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: | My buildworld on a dual 866 coppermine system went from 42 minutes to 29 | minutes. The other side effect was the -j8 parameter finally did | something. Before that anything from -j2 on, actually made the I thought over -j2 was not recommended, and often broke? | buildworld run longer. I think the cpu's were starved for I/O. The | system is built around 3-ATA-100 Maxtor 30GB HD's. The motherboard is a | VP6 and each HD is on its own controller. Using raid-0 also slowed the | compile down. A far cry from my little laptop. ;-) jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message