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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:52:37 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Speed deamons: How to build a build box? 
Message-ID:  <E0wIh7e-0007NB-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:25:20 PDT." <199704192025.NAA03263@rah.star-gate.com> 
References:  <199704192025.NAA03263@rah.star-gate.com>  

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In message <199704192025.NAA03263@rah.star-gate.com> Amancio Hasty writes:
: One of the first things that I would is to check the system BIOS and
: make sure that the PCI settings are set for optimal performance.

They seem to be.

: Next check the speed of the disks with something like iozone.

IOZONE tells me:

JAZ:	1.5MB/s write, 5.2MB/s read
Fireball: 1.4MB/s write, 2.7MB/s read

Disks are both 4500 rpm.  The JAZ is 12ms seek and the Fireball is
10.5ms seek time.

These disks could easily be much faster :-)  However, async, noatime
mounting seems to be about the best thing I can do for the build.  I
have about a half dozen builds done now, and want to do one or two
more.  I'll post the summary when I finish.

Warner



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