From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 7 0: 8:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5EE37B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 00:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01370; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:08:48 -0700 Message-ID: <39DECC00.71E81EF1@urx.com> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:08:48 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Bolingbroke Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: `time make buildworld' References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > I previously mentioned my adventures upgrading a Pentium 133 from 2.2.5 to > 4.1.1, but I'm noting some odd behavior with the length of time it takes > to buildworld: > > -Running 2.2.5, buildworld to 2.2.8-S, ~11 hours > > -Running 2.2.8-S, buildworld to 3.2-S, ~12 hours > > -Running 3.2-S, buildworld to 3.5-S, ~12 hours > > -Cheated, ran buildworld on a PII-350 for 4.1.1-S, 1 hour, 54 minutes, > then ran installworld over NFS > > -Running 4.1.1-S, buildworld 4.1.1-S, 74 hours, 53 minutes. > > Now, I couldn't see that buildworld for 3.5-S would take 12 hours, then on > the same machine, buildworld for 4.1.1-S would take nearly 75 hours. > Besides the upgrade from 3.5 to 4.1.1, the only change was that I mounted > all non-root partitions with softupdates enabled. > > So, I disable softupdates on all partitions and try again. Now it only > takes 44 hours and 30 minutes to buildworld. Only, ha. > > So what's happening here? Softupdates slow down buildworld? 4.1.1 does > buildworld slower than 3.5 and earlier? Or 4.1.1 buildworld takes a lot > longer than earlier versions? Or my system is just weird? I'm assuming weird up front. I find a 4.1.1 BW takes 36xxu and 1:23 of clock time on my P-II 400 with 256MB of memory and UDMA33 HD's. You p133 should be about 6x or more slower as a guess. I think your differences, based on really minimal information, are probably due to the kind of HD's you have and how much memory. Kent > > Not a matter of life and death--the system seems to be running happily, > buildworld completes, etc, but just curious as to why it's taking so much > longer for 4.1.1 buildworlds... > > Ken > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message