Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:40:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: makeing world Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960706133625.12763B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <31DE72C9.394B@ime.net>
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On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > > > I read someplace that it's best to drop into single user mode > > > to make world, Is this fact? > > > > > > If so, How does one log the make process. > > > I would normally do: make <whatever> |& tee make.err > > > This don't work in single user mode. (Unless I did something wrong) > > > > In single user mode you have to mount the swap partition(s) with > > swapon -a > > before you do the make world. > > > > Ok Thanks. > All I did was: shutdown now, make world. this time. > So far it has been going for ~9 hours, Hopefully it will not eat > my source tree this time. > > I did not do: swapon -a > Does this mean that it's working soley in memory now?? Yes, I think so. The benefit of single user mode is probably also (or primarily) that there's more memory available. I had 16 megs and it failed without the swap partitions mounted. > Maybe thats why it's taking so long, I've only got 8megs in this > 486DX-33 system. :( > > I have saved your suggestions, and will look into thier uses on > the next make world. > Thank you. > > > > > I used make world >& make.out& to get a "make.out" file recording > > the process. I think I typed csh first; probably you would need > > to do that with the command you used as it's probably a csh command. > > > > However you can make world without going into single user mode...I'm > > not sure but I think the benefit of single-user mode is that there > > are fewer processes running to use swap. I thought it was rather > > interesting to not do it in single user mode because the machine could > > continue to serve web pages and allow me to log in from home and look > > at what was going on (or you could log in on another virtual terminal)-- > > I ran swapinfo now and then and did tail -f make.out to see what was > > going on. make.out ends up over 3.5 megabytes. vmstat might also be > > interesting (as well as ps axl) although I suppose pulling up the > > carrots to see how they're growing prolongs the process. > > > > Welp, I have no users (private system), So I'm not concerned about > serving anything, Although it would be nice to be able to access > the system while it's building, There is no NEED for it! > > My hopes are that it at least completes without eating my source > tree again. > > -Enjoy > Gary > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours > The Borg... Where minds meet > (207) 929-3848 >
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