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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:52:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Speed deamons: How to build a build box?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970418124113.2000A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E0wIJ9F-0005Yv-00@rover.village.org>

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1. Make sure you have -pipe in /etc/make.conf CFLAGS

2. Mount the partition(s) that carry /usr/src and /usr/obj
   async.  Think carefully before doing this to your /usr if
   you don't have enough free partitions to isolate just src and
   obj onto their own mountpoints; a crash could require newfs
   to fix :)

3. Think carefully before using async mounts.

4. Think real hard about whether or not you want to async mount ...
   got that fixit floppy handy?  

...

I ran mw tests using ccd with fast/wide disks across a 3940 on a pro/200
and saw only marginal improvement; async definately is what speeds things
up. 

My -current build machine at the moment is a pro200, 32mb of EDO and one
f/w disk on a 3940.  With async /usr, CFLAGS -pipe -0, no eBones or secure
and NOMANCOMPRESS I was building in about 1:41 yesterday afternoon. 

hope this helps,
-Chris
 




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