Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 1997 14:56:40 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Speed deamons: How to build a build box? 
Message-ID:  <199704212156.OAA04372@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:45:50 MDT." <E0wJQuE-00028q-00@rover.village.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>From The Desk Of Warner Losh :
> In message <199704212141.OAA04284@rah.star-gate.com> Amancio Hasty writes:
> : Don't forget to do a time command so we can tell how much disk, system
> : time, etc.. is taken up.
> 
> Ah.  I haven't been doing that.  Will do it for these two runs.  The
> power on the system I'm doing it on will be out while I move it to its
> new home, so it won't be this afternoon :-).
> 
> : Also, what I would like to see done is for the results to be published
> : in a web page preferably FreeBSD.org . It should include hardware
> : setup , anything special in the way of hardware optimization, mount
> : flags, make world flags. Comments on which options or features
> : improves the most for instance -pipe vs. async , etc...
> 
> OK.  I'll write up something for the handbook.
> 
> : If we do a good job , it will go a long way to establish a base
> : level performance at least with respect to make world.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> BTW, this sounds like you had in mind more than I'm doing.  I'm going
> to just run 4 or so make worlds on the same source base with different
> settings on my machine.  I'm not going to try different disks (because
> I don't have anything faster/slower) or other CPUs or other SCSI
> controllers.  Just a "Here's the relative difference that this or that
> or the other thing made to the run" on basically constant hardware
> (but I will do the overclocking thing too).
> 

This sounds really good . Now if the kernel and/or file system gurus can
make their recommendations 4 or 5 runs should be all that we need.

Once is documented others I am sure will be happy to add to the document their
own experiments 8)

	Regards,
	Amancio








Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199704212156.OAA04372>