Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:25:46 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) Message-ID: <199709040625.IAA00354@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199709040045.RAA27340@george.arc.nasa.gov> from "lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov" at "Sep 3, 97 05:45:27 pm"
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In reply to lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov who wrote:
>
> I did a simple "make world" today (Wed Sep 3 17:17:18 PDT 1997),
> on the PPro200 SCSCI system, with today's 3.0-current, and the
> elapsed time was almost exactly 3 hours. It might be interesting
> to compare system components with faster/newer technology that
> can improve on the 3 hour time significantly (surely the Seagate
> Cheetah, IBM Ultrastar 2XP, and Quantum Atlas III are faster,
> perhaps, a PPro w/ 512 KB is significantly better, or possibly
> a Pentium II 266, although I suspect I/O is most of the time,
> not CPU compile time. How about a dual Natoma-based PPro 200
> system using the new SMP kernel-possibly better I/O overlap,
> although, possibly it would thrash the disk and actually slow
> down the build. Maybe some SCSI controller is faster than
> the Buslogic, or maybe not?)
>
> So, any configurations out there significantly faster than 3 hours
> for a "make world" of 3.0-current? I doubt if any of those systems
> use EIDE disks, but, I have been wrong many times before. Results?
Guess again :) My system P6@233/64M/2*4G Maxtor EIDE does a
make world from -current in some 65 mins (that is 1 hour 5 mins) :)
So tell me again that SCSI is faster :)
"the times they are achangeing"
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