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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:11:03 +0100
From:      "'Wilko Bulte'" <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/obj required space
Message-ID:  <20010213191103.A19426@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7BFA@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:46:38AM %2B0100
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7BFA@l04.research.kpn.com>

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On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to get my little Alpha to build the world. Due to my
> > > disks dying of old age I have only limited diskspace left, so I
> > > mounted 500Mb on /usr/obj for the buildworld. Alas, too small.
> > > 
> > > This seems funny, since on my x86 box the same tree is only
> > > ~330Mb in size. How come Alpha needs 200Mb more?
> > 
> > mx5#du -ks *
> > 768419  usr
> > 
> > Yesterday's -current on a Miata
> >
> Thanks Wilko, time to reshuffle the disks in the box. *sigh*
> 
> On my PeeCee:
> LikeEver# cd /usr/obj
> LikeEver# du -ks *
> 330241  usr
> LikeEver# 
> 
> I knew that gcc wasn't terribly efficient on Alpha, but this is silly. More
> than twice the required disk space for a world build?

Alphas like alignment on 64 bit, so I would not blame it all on gcc.

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