From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 7 0:15:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B20637B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 00:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA84888 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 00:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 00:14:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: `time make buildworld' In-Reply-To: <39DECC00.71E81EF1@urx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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 3.2-S, buildworld to 3.5-S, ~12 hours > >... > > -Running 4.1.1-S, buildworld 4.1.1-S, 74 hours, 53 minutes. > >... > > 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. Someone else just made me think--perhaps 4.1.1 is more sensitive to low RAM? This machine only has 8meg RAM, with 200 megs of swap evenly split across two IDE disks. There were no hardware changes between the various builds. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message