Date: 12 Jan 2000 09:35:24 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation Message-ID: <xzp901vr8kz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Matthew D. Fuller"'s message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:10:29 -0600" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111133039.4135B-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com> <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> <20000111181029.A22816@futuresouth.com>
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"Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> writes: > I have a 386 SX/16 (no 387) with 4 megs of RAM and a 100 meg drive running > (presently) 2.1.5-RELEASE. When I installed it (out of morbid curiosity), > I built a kernel, which took about 6 hours. I'm now doing a (NFS) make > world of the latest RELENG_2_1_0 (nope, no buildworld on that branch. > Anyone wanna try backporting it? ;). It's now in Day 8 and building > .../usr.bin/f2c. It took approximately 7 hours to compile troff, > thrashing madly the whole time (something like 15 pageins/sec, as fast as > the disk would handle). This is with -O -pipe BTW. I'm expecting > perhaps 12-15 days for the entire make world. Fun for the whole family! > :) The moral of the story: don't use -pipe on low-memory systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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