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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:29:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912012327170.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912011334320.52717-100000@24-25-220-29.san.rr.com>

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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Doug Barton wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Anyone here do a buildworld with dual PIII-600s?
> > 
> > I'd like to know if dual 600s are worth the investment,
> > right now i have 2x400 but unsure if it's worth it to 
> > spend almost 1k for this upgrade.
> 
> 	We have some machines here with dual 550's and 1/2G of ram. I can
> do a full make world in c. 57 minutes (from memory, but that's pretty
> accurate). Here are my make.conf settings:
> 
> CFLAGS= -O -pipe
> NOPROFILE=      true
> COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
> USA_RESIDENT=           YES
> TOP_TABLE_SIZE= 32503
> 
> Other than that I just do a straight 'make -j4 -DNOCLEAN world'. That's
> with both directories new and clean. If I'm doing a second make world I
> can get it done in just under 42 minutes. *grin*

How are your filesystems mounted/what kind of disks?

Personally I've found that a higher -j can work even better, something
like 8 or even 12 works pretty good.  (depends if I want to play mp3s
while building or not :) )

If you're not using softupdates or your FS's are mounted normally
how well do you fare with 'async'?  With a clean slate (without NOCLEAN)?

thanks,
-Alfred



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