Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:18:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> To: Andrew Heybey <ath@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP nerd toy report Message-ID: <XFMail.990422141801.cpiazza@home.net> In-Reply-To: <199904222110.RAA10023@stiegl.niksun.com>
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On 22-Apr-99 Andrew Heybey wrote:
>>>On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:03:54 -0700 (PDT), Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
>>>said:
>
> cpiazza> Hmm... IMO that's not a very good speed, though it might
> cpiazza> prove how I/O based buildworld is. My K6-2 300 (100mhz
> cpiazza> FSB) with 96 megs of ram does a buildworld in 75-80 minutes
> cpiazza> without any '-j' flags, and this is a single processor!
>
> Well, this is in part why I sent mail--I have no idea what is good or
> not. I meant I'm a happy nerd more in the "look at my neat SMP toy"
> as opposed to "look how fast buildworld runs". I do know that the
> speed of make world is dependent to a large extent on the speed of
> your disks and how many spindles you have. How many disks do you have
> and where is your /usr/src and /usr/obj?
>
> At work I have a 450MHz PII with multiple 10000RPM SCSI disks, though
> I have never actually timed make buildworld on it. I should.
Understood, I use a single 5400 RPM UDMA Ide disk with the new ATA drivers -
/usr/obj and /usr/src are on the same partition. I'm *extremely* pleased with
this system as my P166 took over 4 hours(!). I'd be interested in seeing what
a difference SCSI over IDE has in a buildworld.
---
Chris Piazza Abbotsford, BC, Canada
cpiazza@home.net
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