Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:03:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> To: Andrew Heybey <ath@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SMP nerd toy report Message-ID: <XFMail.990422140354.cpiazza@home.net> In-Reply-To: <199904221642.MAA08575@stiegl.niksun.com>
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On 22-Apr-99 Andrew Heybey wrote:
> I have been very pleased with it so far. I installed 3.1-RELEASE for
> now. At 300MHz (66MHz FSB), my worldstone (CFLAGS="-O -pipe",
> make -j8 buildworld, softupdates, /usr/src & /usr/obj on the same
> partition of a Maxtor IDE disk) is about 1:15.
>
> At 450MHz (100MHz FSB) "make -j8 buildworld" takes about 0:55. (I
> know, bad hacker. I promise not to submit any PRs unless they can be
> duplicated at 300MHz.) I expect that if I got a second disk for
> /usr/obj that the build would really fly.
>
> All in all, I'm a happy nerd.
Hmm... IMO that's not a very good speed, though it might prove how I/O based
buildworld is. My K6-2 300 (100mhz FSB) with 96 megs of ram does a buildworld
in 75-80 minutes without any '-j' flags, and this is a single processor!
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Chris Piazza Abbotsford, BC, Canada
cpiazza@home.net
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