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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]
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