From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 4 17:54:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id RAA00102 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 17:54:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29996 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 17:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA19160; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:24:19 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612050154.MAA19160@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New benchmarks to design In-Reply-To: from Mark Mayo at "Dec 4, 96 08:29:02 pm" To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:24:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[