Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:39:52 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: xdice@mindspring.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make World Time - is it that important Message-ID: <19990921083952.F11378@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990920173923.30467@mindspring.net>; from Pat Young on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:39:23PM -0400 References: <XFMail.990919171332.andrew@cream.org> <19990919230220.A74437@titus.stade.co.uk> <19990920173923.30467@mindspring.net>
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On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:39:23PM -0400, Pat Young wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 1999, Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> quoth: > > On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 05:13:32PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > One quick question: how long do you think a 90 MHz Pentium with 48MB of RAM > > > will take to do a make world? > > > > A 60 MHz Pentium with 16 MB of RAM took 7 hours to do "make buildworld". > > Sorry, I've no timestamps for the subsequent installworld and kernel > > compilation. > > > > -- > > My PII-300, with 208 megs of ram, and a Quantum Atlas II UW drive (with 2940UW controller) takes about 95 > minutes to do a buildworld (make -j3 used) - the installworld takes about 10-12 minutes, I'm guessing, > since I've not timed it. my old faithfull i386dx33 with '387 fitted and 8 mb of 60 ns dip style dram that is wired directly into the 32 bit system nd cpu buss (daring for its time, aka 1988) and the hard disk is the original fujitsu 345 mb esdi on a western digital se 1007 mk 2 host adapter (i cheat i have a scsi hard drive in thier as well, on an adaptec 1542b) take a whole 10 minutes to build world. i start the procedure watch it fro about 5 or so minutes as i drink my tea then i go to bed. when i wake up in the morning i start the breafast and turn on teh screen and then i take 5 minutes to get focus, i'm a slow starter, by that time i see that its finished properly and i can get on with my life. an old freind of mine said, life is too short to be sitting around whatchin computers doing thier jobs ... that why we buy good reliable hardware so we don't have to waste time watching all the time. regards jonathan, almost s old as his hardware. please note .. reply wriiten with tongue in cheep mode attempted -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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