Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:59:05 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world takes 7 days Message-ID: <398A1559.946.47F8748F@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200008031214.OAA81266@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> References: <8mbhr5$1us2$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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On 3 Aug 2000, at 14:14, Oliver Fromme wrote: > In list.freebsd-chat Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> 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. ;-) I don't know. I'd have to open the box to find out. > > > [...] > > 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. Yep. I'd love to do that. But I can't afford that at the moment. In fact, all of my FreeBSD has been donated to me. > 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). When I get work, then I'll start buying hardware. Until then, I have lots of time to wait. cheers -- Dan Langille [I'm looking for more work] The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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