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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:11:36 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: `time make buildworld'
Message-ID:  <20001009141136.A16050@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010080002.e9802ma83795@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 07:02:48PM -0500
References:  <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200010080002.e9802ma83795@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 07:02:48PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that David Kelly remarked
> Jordan Hubbard writes:
> > I think you should keep it around as a data point for the worldstone benchmark.
> > We could have your machine's value as the low-end reference point. :)
> 
> I let it run for at least 10 days trying (I gave up, it was still
> crunching) to buildworld via NFS once. Or was that 40 days? Its been a
> long time. Guess I should fire it up connected to a UPS and find out. 
> And one day we may also find the definitive answer as to "How many 
> licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop(tm)?"

I have a 386 SX/20 with 4 megs running a fairly recent (~8 month old)
2.1-STABLE.  Last buildworld I did on it (over nfs to my workstation)
took approx. 11 days IIRC.  I wouldn't even consider doing a buildworld
on it (80 meg drive...  yum.)

Still, it makes a pretty solid print server  ;)


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)     |    fullermd@over-yonder.net
Unix Systems Administrator      |    fullermd@futuresouth.com
Specializing in FreeBSD         |    http://www.over-yonder.net/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"


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