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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:21:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates vs. async
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980407201948.6528C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <351C4421.C01345A0@giovannelli.it>

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sorry for the long delay...
soft updates leaves you however with a disk that is consistant after a
crash or power fail. it is also much FASTER in some cases..
(but not all). do you have /usr/tmp async or softdep (for example)
(or wherever gcc puts it's tmp files..)

julian

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:

> I tried several make world in these days trying different configurations
> to see which of them works better...
> 
> I saw that async is performing better than softupdates (is it possible
> ???) ... infact :
> 
> **** -j4 build+install X softup *****
> ---- Start Make World : Thu Mar 26 21:56:33 GMT 1998
> ---- End Make World : Thu Mar 26 23:41:36 GMT 1998
> 
> 1h 45m
> 
> 
> **** -j4 build+install X async *****
> ---- Start Make World : Fri Mar 27 07:02:58 GMT 1998
> ---- End Make World : Fri Mar 27 08:26:35 GMT 1998
> 
> 1h 24m
> 
> 
> **** -j4 build+install notcl noprofi noperl noX async *****
> ---- Start Make World : Fri Mar 27 10:43:23 GMT 1998
> ---- End Make World : Fri Mar 27 11:56:25 GMT 1998
> 
> 1h 13m
> 
> 
> **** -j4 world notcl noprofi noperl noX async *****
> ---- Start Make World : Fri Mar 27 20:29:01 GMT 1998
> ---- End Make World : Fri Mar 27 21:41:02 GMT 1998
> 
> 1h 12m
> 
> 
> Now considering that my box is a Pentium 2 (300mhz) with a2940uw
> (onboard) and two hd wide scsi /usr/src and /usr/obj on two different
> drives... it seems to me that I am quite slow considering the times I
> saw in this area...
> 
> Any suggests ?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards...
> 
> Gianmarco
> "Unix expert since yesterday"
> 
> http://www.giovannelli.it
> 
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