From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 02:33:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3A61065672 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:33:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.22.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78F018FC0C for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3027 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jul 2012 02:33:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2012 02:33:37 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=LcZCkchmaZz8+qzHl1tfRMmDNysyDr/G4xeZc7tO+T8=; b=S4Zh1ZSqcgWiB9lgL0ZA69KUCpzxsBAemxsaSeXqez136v0uQWrovJ7tXqqd733/YXo8uGsLM+jy3ATG4tkv6tb+8q+fA10LpUhz2EHHNd2S1nYeeMkr0h0LQAKa76ok; Received: from [24.8.180.234] (port=63305 helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SuDtQ-00082y-Ow for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:33:36 -0600 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:33:36 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120726023336.GA25888@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1343228557.99992.androidMobile@web140705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20120726005343.5f4f604c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120726010633.5b206610.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120726004115.GB53190@neutralgood.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120726004115.GB53190@neutralgood.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: how to speed up port make?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:33:59 -0000 On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:41:15PM -0400, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:06:33AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:59:56 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > > Got you beat. Compiled world on a 100MHz Pentium with 40 MB of RAM. > > > > I think I can: FreeBSD 4 on a Pentium 1 with 64 MB EDO RAM. > > The make buildworld took 24 hours. The kernel itself, if I > > remember correctly, required 3-5 hours, of course without > > much tweaking. :-) > > Luxury! > > I once compiled a custom kernel of NetBSD/i386 on a 486 with 8MB of RAM. > I was stuck with the GENERIC kernel which took up over 6MB just to boot. > > It took over 40 days to finish. > > To be fair it didn't help that I had to move out of my apartment in the > middle. So it took some time for make to refigure out where had been in > the build. > > Heck, we used to compile gcc and watch movies. It took three movies to > get through a full recursive compile of gcc. Yep, 6 hours. > > And then there was that occasion one night watching a guy logged into an > Ultrix box: Raise your hand if you've ever seen 'ps' report that it had > itself been swapped out. Yep, again. > > Ah, good times. > > I think I still have some memory _chips_ (zip scrams, not dips) around > here somewhere.... You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of metal stuck in it as a power source. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]