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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:24:18 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo)
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New benchmarks to design
Message-ID:  <199612050154.MAA19160@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961204202201.5327A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> from Mark Mayo at "Dec 4, 96 08:29:02 pm"

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Mark Mayo stands accused of saying:
> 
> This certainly seems to be the case for me these days.. I did a make world
> last night, and watched it a little more closely than I usually do =) I
> noticed that my CPU didn't really get less than 20% idle for the entire
> build. THe load average on the system hovered around .50

Do you have '-pipe' in CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf?  Enough memory?  SCSI?
A more reasonable load average for 'make world' is 1.2 or so, and normally
less than 10% idle in my experience.

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