From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 27 11:27:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C877237B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ED543F3F; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1RJRKJu006627; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:21 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h1RJRK8o006626; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:20 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:20 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Eric Veraart Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG;, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld on RLX Serverblade 1000t takes ages Message-ID: <20030227112720.A26204@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030227133549.047684c0@mail.monkey-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030227133549.047684c0@mail.monkey-online.net>; from eric@monkey-online.net on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:40:53PM +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:40:53PM +0100, Eric Veraart wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I've got two RLX Serverblades T1000 here with the same specs and the same= =20 > problem. > I installed 4.7-Release on the blades, CVSUPed and am now running a=20 > buildworld. This is taking ages. Yesterday I did one of the blades, and i= t=20 > took approximitly 5 hours to complete the build. Now I'm running buildwor= ld=20 > on the second blade and it's taking about 2 hours now, and it's still no= t=20 > finished. > Here's the output of dmesg -a : > ad0: 19077MB [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 This is a 4200 RPM disk so it's going to be slow. I noticed a reasionably performance increase when I upgraded my laptop to a 5400RPM disk. When you consider the less then stellar performance of transmeta CPUs, I can't say I think those numbers are totally out of line. That does see a bit worse then I'd expect, but not outside the relm of possiability. It seems like the right answer for blade servers it probably to do the build on a more powerful server and then mount /usr/src and /usr/obj over NFS for the upgrades. If that's possiable in your environment, I'd strongly recommend it. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XmaXXY6L6fI4GtQRApKjAJ9b5/9PxRzDLVsTjfdTOH59nDnvCgCdEpeG YhUl+1p8edBy+a7FiEZLfIk= =HyOt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message