Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:01:08 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: my system has slowed down Message-ID: <199502270901.LAA00310@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199502270651.HAA29424@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Feb 27, 95 07:51:46 am
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> > > Somewhere in the time between Feb 17th and today my two daily world builds > stopped from working. Up to then I started world build at 7 a.m. and had > finished about 5 p.m. After that I built a kernel and rebooted the system. > This all was steered by cron. In the past days this suddenly stopped > working. The kernel build was done in midst of the (still running) world > build and thus the world build never finished. > > But I see a noticeable slow down in compiles. The machine is a 486-DX2/66 > with 32MB of memory and two IDE Quantum Maverick 540 MB drives. > > I cannot image that some addition to the source tree caused such a tremendous > increase in build time >12 hours (compared to 10 before). What else could > be the cause for this? (fragmentation?) > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Feb 26 > 20:27:39 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386 > I don't think it is fragmentation, because I am also seeing it. The disk seems to be very busy, even after the patch to vfs_bio.c from John Dyson. -- John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za
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