From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 22 19:34:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E84116A419 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:34:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E28413C455 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J6A6o-0008WV-69 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:34:06 +0000 Received: from murdoc.gwi.net ([207.5.142.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:34:06 +0000 Received: from jcoombs by murdoc.gwi.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:34:06 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Joshua Coombs Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:33:51 -0500 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <200712201706.lBKH6fwn067680@lurza.secnetix.de> <476ABD93.3080707@brianwhalen.net> <476CFC45.40107@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: murdoc.gwi.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <476CFC45.40107@gmx.de> Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:34:18 -0000 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Why don't you just do the buildworld on another machine? As I don't use the machine as a primary workstation at the moment, it doesn't really matter to me if it takes 1 hour or 3 months, I start the buildworld in a screen'd shell and check on it periodically. When it finishes, I set aside 10 to 20 minutes to do an installworld/kernel & mergemaster via serial console, 'just in case.' The closest it gets to annoying is when I start a buildworld based on a new security fix, and 3 days in the fix is revised. : ) And Oliver, you were correct, omitting -pipe didn't allow a buildworld to finish with 448MB ram + swap. Guess I get to repartition after all. My new plan is going to be sourcing a Gigabyte I-RAM, putting 4GB on it, and wiring up an external power supply for it. That plus an SATA to IDE adapter from NewEgg should let me run the I-RAM on my empty ATA controller, giving me 4GB of swap running as fast as the machine can take it. Depending on how it behaves, I may track down a 2MB ISA VGA card again and throw KDE4 on it just to be truly insane. They say it's much better about memory utilization now... :P Joshua Coombs