Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:36:06 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Aaron P. Martinez" <ml@proficuous.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld.........24 hours???? Message-ID: <20041030003606.GA60037@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1099096228.18749.149.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> References: <1099096228.18749.149.camel@aaron.proficuous.com>
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--5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:30:28PM -0500, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: > I have an amd k6II 500 machine with 32 megs of ram, 20 gig 7200 rpm hard > drive which i just installed fresh with FBSD 5.3RC1 on the whole disk, > no boot loader. =20 >=20 > I cvsuped the sources yesterday around 5 pm CDT and then started a make > buildworld. It is now 7:15 pm CDT the following day and it is still > grinding away... Can it really take this long? The hard drive is > grinding i can see from the hdd led but top reports that the box isn't > under that heavy of a load..=20 That's not unreasonable - the performance killer will be your lack of memory, which means that you'll be swapping a lot while compiling. Kris --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBguH1Wry0BWjoQKURAt7FAKDv/gjktITsK26uByEGvKDS8NyxCwCdFXIf YHbgMhYbLIajaHaINDHwtuw= =24Q6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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