From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 1 17:24: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67F414D90 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA11719; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:22:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:22:59 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Doug Barton , chat@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 01-Dec-99 Doug Barton wrote: > > We have some machines here with dual 550's and 1/2G of ram. I can > > do a full make world in c. 57 minutes (from memory, but that's pretty > > accurate). Here are my make.conf settings: > > Well I think you're doing something wrong.. > > I have a dual PII-350 system with 128 meg of ram and crappy 5400 rpm IDE disks > and my fastest buildworld is 55 minutes.. Indeed. My dual PII-400 256MB with LVD-SCSI disks does make -j8 -DNOGAMES in ~50 minutes. Try upping the number of jobs until it slows down. In answer to the original question, I don't think that going to dual 600MHz processors is worth the money. If the money is buring a hole in your pocket, sure, but otherwise, nope. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message