From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 11 01:32:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15497 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isvara.net (root@[130.88.148.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15467 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:32:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@challenge.isvara.net) Received: from challenge.isvara.net ([130.88.66.5]) by isvara.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00314 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:31:27 GMT Message-ID: <35065A02.3C9F648@challenge.isvara.net> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:31:46 +0000 From: freebsd@isvara.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Amazing :-) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Woa! It takes my Cyrix 6x86 PR200+ (150Mhz) w/ 32MB SDRAM + 2.5GB UDMA HD about 3hrs flat with no user intervention. The FreeBSD partition is only 500MB, and is at the end of the disk, in slower recording zones! What are other people getting? Dan _____________________________________ Daniel J Blueman BSc Computation, UMIST, Manchester Email: blue@challenge.isvara.net Web: http://www.challenge.isvara.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message