From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 10:42:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA01340 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [206.224.65.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01333 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA28495; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:42:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199608121742.MAA28495@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Re: compile time To: 100626.3506@CompuServe.COM (Jan Knepper) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:42:02 -0500 (CDT) Cc: khetan@iafrica.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <960806095732_100626.3506_BHL105-1@CompuServe.COM> from Jan Knepper at "Aug 6, 96 05:57:33 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jan Knepper wrote: > Kheten Gajjar wrote: > > /* > A kernel recompile on 2.1.0 takes for me: > > text data bss dec hex > > 954368 61440 74356 1090164 10a274 > > 257.32 real 162.45 user 18.24 sys > > Wow! What machine have you got ? */ > > A Pentium Pro 200, 64 MB RAM, NCR SCSI-2 2.1 GB HD, 6x SCSI CD-ROM... > I am running my own company and have a couple of machine's. Only P's though. The > PP200 is the latest toy. I think it is in for almost 2 months now, may be longer > already. I usually develop in C++ for Window NT/95, 3.1x, OS/2 Warp, Novell > NetWare. Header files and other stuff is getting so *huge* that a faster > machines really pays off these days... > I used a P120 before. The compile time turned out to be LESS than half what is > was before! That is what I call improvement. > > Don't worry, be Kneppie, > Jan > Its a bit of an apple to oranges comparison, but my Pentium Pro 200 with Natom chipset, 96MB RAM, NFS mounted /usr/src over a 10BaseT ethernet link, compiling a customized -current kernel with the -pipe option gives me: text data bss dec hex 876544 57344 84876 1018764 f8b8c 207.21s real 150.37s user 14.31s system Note that these times do _not_ include "make depend". That adds just under a minute of elapsed time to the results. -- Bob Willcox politics, n: bob@luke.pmr.com A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of Austin, TX principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce