From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 4 6:14:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rochester.rr.com (roc-24-95-193-110.rochester.rr.com [24.95.193.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54F937B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aaron@localhost) by rochester.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f14EDvr09229; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:13:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aaron) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:13:56 -0500 From: Aaron Jeremias Luz To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Chalmers Subject: Re: how long for makeworld to complete!!!! Message-ID: <20010204091356.A9102@thud.rochester.rr.com> Reply-To: aaron@csh.rit.edu Mail-Followup-To: Aaron Jeremias Luz , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Robert Chalmers References: <200102040623.f146N8m11098@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102040623.f146N8m11098@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>; from robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 04:23:07PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 04:23:07PM +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Just wondering - after hours and hours and hours - just how long > makeworld takes on a P233+128Mb doing 4 -> 4.2 ( I hope?) Without the profiling libraries, it takes less than 8 hours to build 4.2-STABLE on an AMD 5x86, which is actually just a fast 486. When FreeBSD takes longer than a good night's sleep to build, I guess I'll need to upgrade. The speed of the buildworld process depends heavily on the speed of your computer's memory system. Most other tasks won't strain the memory bus as hard. Does your motherboard use the Intel VX chipset? If so, only the first 64MB of RAM are cached. Try either removing 64MB or disabling the `write-back' feature of the L2 cache. The later action may allow the chipset to cache all 128MB. You should be able to determine the type of motherboard chipset in your computer by looking at the output produced by `dmesg.' Hope this helps, Aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message