Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:37:49 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing 6.0-BETA3 Message-ID: <20050831223749.6db2ccc3.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200508301223.20626.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200508281326.j7SDQGfc073329@blue.virtual-estates.net> <20050829191927.6694a969.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <200508301223.20626.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:23:20 -0400 Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: > > If the card is a 16bit pcmcia card make sure the bridge is set to 16bit. > > How do I do that? On my old Thinkpad you had to access the BIOS and there were pcmcia settings in one of the menus. It was set to 16bit, changing it made it possible to use a realtek8139-based cardbus card. This was in the 5.0-CURRENT days, btw, so YMMV. > > I wouldn't blame WITNESS on this. Laptops, especially old ones, have > > incredibly slow disks. The buildworld process is heavily i/o bounded, > > my bet is on the disk subsystem. > > According to systat and top, the CPU is never idle -- as would've been the > case, if the I/O were the limiting factor. The Sys-component of `systat -vm' > was steadily above 50%. > > Now that I have a witness-less kernel, the builds are, indeed, I/O bound. Out of curiosity, how long does it take now for a buildworld run? The only full world build I ever did on my old laptop was for OpenBSD and I left overnight. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1
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