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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:39:19 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world time???/
Message-ID:  <3468FAB7.FF6D5DF@whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971111142833.28037B-100000@bsampley> <19971111152250.16665@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>

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John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 
> Burton Sampley scribbled this message on Nov 11:
> > I'm really curious what people are doing to complete make world in such
> > disgustingly low amount of time.  I just recently upgraded from IDE to
> > SCSI (IDE drives are still installed, but are presently not being used)
> > and installed a 233-MMX (overclocked to 266 using 75MHz bus speed)  and
> > the best time I can get for make world is 3:00 hours.  I started with
> > source code from 9/11 with /usr/obj/ empty.  I'm only using the
> > plain-vanilla 'make world' from /usr/src.  Any suggestion?
> 
> well.. sounds like you need to enable -pipe on the CFLAGS (see
> /etc/make.conf)... and you also need to pass something like -j4 on the
> make commandline to enble parallel building...  this dropped my time
> bye 25%... note though, that some of those times are with some parts of
> the build disabled...

also mount the obj and src trees on partitions set to 'async' mode.

> 
> I'm able to do a buildworld in about 5h on my k5/90...
> 
> --
>   John-Mark Gurney                          Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954
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> 
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