From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 21 15:12:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE6E437B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:12:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 21 Feb 2001 23:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:12:10 +0000 From: David Malone To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Robin Cutshaw , Peter Wemm , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build timings - FreeBSD 4.2 vs. Linux Message-ID: <20010221231210.A68244@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20010219134043.A8347@intercore.com> <200102192021.f1JKLQr61572@mobile.wemm.org> <20010221090207.A11473@intercore.com> <20010221093617.I6641@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010221093617.I6641@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:36:18AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:36:18AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Robin Cutshaw [010221 06:07] wrote: > > > > OK, I set softupdates on the disk/partition that the build source/target > > is on. It made no difference in timing. I then created a memory disk, > > set softupdates on it, and mounted it as /tmp. AMAZINGLY, the build > > went from 2:50 to 0:40, now much faster than the Linux system. I'm > > going to do the ram disk thing on Linux and see if it makes a difference. > > What about just making sure that /tmp and /usr/tmp and /var/tmp are > all softupdates enabled? Or adding -pipe to CFLAGS. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message