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Subject: Re: Speed deamons: How to build a build box?
To: paul@originat.demon.co.uk (Paul Richards)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:28:56 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu (Chris Timmons), imp@village.org (Warner Losh),
        current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <87lo6fs3xn.fsf@originat.demon.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Apr 19, 1997 11:27:32 AM
From: camattin@ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly)
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Paul Richards wrote the following about "Re: Speed deamons: How to build a build box?" on Sat Apr 19 06:27:32 1997
> 
> Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> writes:
> 
> > My -current build machine at the moment is a pro200, 32mb of EDO and one
> > f/w disk on a 3940.  With async /usr, CFLAGS -pipe -0, no eBones or secure
> > and NOMANCOMPRESS I was building in about 1:41 yesterday afternoon. 
> 
> Hmm, it can't be that i/o bound then.
> 
> My P100, with 64Mb and a fast/wide Atlas on a 2940 takes 5 hours to do
> a make world.
> 
> I do a bit more than you, I have
> CFLAGS= -O2 -m486 -pipe
> 
> and I build the whole lot. If it was a strictly i/o bound process my
> P100 wouldn't do so badly since everything else is comparable or
> better than your PPro200.

FYI, I have a P133, 2940, SEAGATE ST32151N, 64 Megs EDO, and a make world
took 4:18:37 .. this included compressing the man pages, eBones, etc, and
also cleaning out my last build.

-Chris
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