From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 18:47:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from johnson.mail.mindspring.net (johnson.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2FE37B40C for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@operamail.com) Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.219.34.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.219.34]) by johnson.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA09687 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200108150147.VAA09687@johnson.mail.mindspring.net> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:48:25 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jud Subject: Speeding Up Make World Reply-To: jud@operamail.com X-Mailer: Opera 5.12 build 932 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 3 suggestions from 4 different places have helped me cut my time to "make world" from 1 hr 15 min to a half hour - thought I'd pass along the links for anyone who doesn't already use these and is looking to speed up the process. * Using a MFS, suggested on BSD Vault at http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=53 - doubling the suggested MFS size gives me good results. * Tuning suggestions at http://www.daemonnews.org/200108/benchmark.html and the tuning(7) man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi? query=tuning&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current - many of these are more applicable to a server environment, but some were quite helpful to little ol' me on my PC. :) * Mounting usr/src with the -noatime option, as suggested in the Handbook (section 20.4.15.6) at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- 1/books/handbook/makeworld.html . Jud P.S. Does using mergemaster prior to "make world," as suggested in Mike Tancsa's post this evening "Re: make buildworld fails..." have any speed or other advantage over doing so afterward? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message