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To: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, 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.

  What's amazing, is that it should be faster, much faster.  You should
get about 90 to 100 minutes for a PPro200 with fast disks and lots of RAM.
And that is before Softupdates.

  I suspect that you hard drive(s) are extremely slow.  Softupdates just
speed that up.

> Al

Tom


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