Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 19:02:48 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: `time make buildworld' Message-ID: <200010080002.e9802ma83795@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> of "Sat, 07 Oct 2000 16:53:58 PDT." <95021.970962838@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard writes: > I think you should keep it around as a data point for the worldstone benchmark. > We could have your machine's value as the low-end reference point. :) I let it run for at least 10 days trying (I gave up, it was still crunching) to buildworld via NFS once. Or was that 40 days? Its been a long time. Guess I should fire it up connected to a UPS and find out. And one day we may also find the definitive answer as to "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop(tm)?" > > Warner Losh writes: > > > On a 8MB system, I'd recommend against softupdates. They need a lot > > > of RAM to be useful. > > > > I have a 4MB 386SX16 with 2.something on it. Should I upgrade? :-) > > OS I mean, not the hardware. Keep that old think laying around for > > laughs, its bigger than a laptop but in similar package. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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