From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 3 5:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA11737B663 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA81266; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:14:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:14:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008031214.OAA81266@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dan@langille.org Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world takes 7 days X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <8mbhr5$1us2$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In list.freebsd-chat Dan Langille wrote: > 486DX at 1193182 Hz with 12288K bytes. What's the clock speed of the processor? Those 1193182 Hz is the hardware timer rate, not the processor clock rate. I don't think intel ever made 486's with 1.2 MHz. ;-) > [...] > The build world started at 1100 on July 28th. > It finished at 14:53 on August 3. That's probably because there's not enough RAM. With only 12 Mbyte, it has to swap quite a bit during make world. Put a bit more RAM into it, and it will be considerably faster. I once did a make world on a 486DX-33 with 32 Mbyte RAM. Both /usr/obj and /usr/src were mounted via NFS (!) via Ethernet (10 Mbps), because the box didn't have enough local diskspace. It took "only" 28 hours. > CPU states: 4.6% user, 0.0% nice, 10.7% system, 79.5% interrupt, > 5.2% idle > > Lots of interrupt. Yep, probably because of swapping. Poor box. :-) Only 4.6% spent for actual compilation -- a sure sign of a misconfiguration (not enough RAM). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message