From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 10 19:40:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06559 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:40:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06554 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA07248; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd007240; Tue Mar 10 19:35:00 1998 Message-ID: <35060560.13728473@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:30:40 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alok K. Dhir" CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Ingber Subject: Re: Amazing :-) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alok K. Dhir wrote: > > I just enabled softupdates on all filesystems except root on my SMP > -current machine (dual 300Mhz Pentium II, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI, 256MB RAM). > The "make world" time just went from ~6 hours to 2 hours 20 mins. > > That is one hell of a performance increase! > > Al > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message you must have /usr/obj, /var/tmp and /usr/src all on the same physical disk?? (i.e. your setup greatly benefitted from making those accesses async from the compilation process.) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message