Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:50:23 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about cc flags in buildkernel Message-ID: <200503080950.26844.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20050308034852.GX22167@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <200503072107.13313.kirk@strauser.com> <20050308034852.GX22167@cicely12.cicely.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 07 March 2005 21:48, Bernd Walter wrote: > There is no speed influence by this option. Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't sure, and it was nice to get a bit of confirmation. > How did you compare speed? It's more of a general observation: everything is just slow, slow, slow. For example, loading the man page for 'zshall' (from the shells/zsh port) takes most of a minute: # time man zshall > /dev/null Formatting page, please wait...Done. man zshall > /dev/null 47.39s user 0.99s system 93% cpu 51.523 total during which troff and grotty are using 100% of the CPU. SSH connections to it take a long time to start: $ time ssh gopher exit ssh gopher exit 0.04s user 0.03s system 0% cpu 7.675 total If I run that with "-v", I can see that it spends most of that time in "Entering interactive session." The hard drive isn't completely horrible (~8MB sustained transfers at less than 8% CPU usage), and it has 3 fxp NICs that barely register under heavy network load. I installed 256MB of RAM (with 2MB of L2 cache, I think), and it's currently only 12KB into swap. In other words, by every metric I can think of, it appears the bottleneck is that the CPU is dog slow. > If it's just from compile time, you shouldn't forget that gcc-3 is much > slower than the older gcc and that compiling for alpha is a much harder > job than compiling for i386. Compile times don't really bother me; I launch big jobs and then walk away from it until they're done. That's also why I was using the higher-order optimization flags. They make the compiles quite a bit slower, but the results usually seem to be worth it (which here means "less painful"). I'm really not expecting miracles from this little machine, but my K6/333 laptop with less RAM and a 2.5" IDE harddrive smokes it in every way. I was sort of hoping I'd found the "aha!" detail that would account for the awful performance. -- Kirk Strauser [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBCLcnC5sRg+Y0CpvERApQLAJwO8E6tIRBDIy+9Vi2WH95vpmp6ZwCgmvU4 i6m4lHkqmCnToWsrEyvVw0s= =eH9P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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