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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2017 05:08:54 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>
Cc:        Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Does someone keep track of how long it takes to buildworld/kernel?
Message-ID:  <20170117050854.f964d143.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:41:06 -0800, jungle Boogie wrote:
> On 13 January 2017 at 12:23, Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > It takes forever, but I keep on forgetting to time how long it takes, so I
> > don't know how long "forever" is.
> 
> 
> My last buildworld on a severely under powered i386 for 11stable: 420:41 minutes
> Build kernel is around 85 minutes.

Some "manual copy & paste" data from the past (original post
is from 2008, repost from 11/2015):


*** quote ***


FreeBSD 5 on Pentium 4 with 2 GHz and 1 GB RAM:

b.world+b.kern:	17494.415u 2562.134s 5:46:42.25 96.4% (with CFLAGS)
		17474.169u 2481.368s 5:46:30.40 95.9% (without CLFAGS)
		 5608.712u 1595.130s 2:13:18.67 90.0%
		 6382.185u 1788.433s 2:26:36.06 92.8%
buildworld:	 5086.993u 1431.086s 1:58:16.33 91.8%
		11457.047u 2151.158s 3:54:15.31 96.8%
buildkernel	 2326.380u  234.457s   43:42.15 97.6%
		 1102.491u  278.194s   25:18.58 90.9%
		 1182.203u  294.622s   26:12.71 93.9%
		 1518.402u  310.741s   34:16.96 88.9%
		 3289.368u  529.669s 1:05:25.90 97.2%
installkernel:	    5.718u    6.898s    0:30.97 40.6%
		    6.655u    7.389s    0:32.08 43.7%
		    6.994u    7.734s    0:33.19 44.3%

(...software advance happens here...)

FreeBSD 7 on Pentium 4 with 2 GHz and 1 GB RAM:

b.world+b.kern:	16574.070u 2516.128s 6:06:03.90 86.9% (with debug)
		18232.967u 2427.404s 7:19:49.24 78.2% (with debug)
		18992.839u 2569.146s 9:12:00.28 65.1%
buildworld:	11457.047u 2151.158s 3:54:15.31 96.8%
buildkernel:	 3289.368u  529.669s 1:05:25.90 97.2%
		 3503.732u  524.399s 1:11:05.53 94.4%
		 4032.019u  572.636s 1:58:29.08 64.7% (with debug)
installkernel:	   17.396u   12.587s    0:46.89 63.9%
		   18.890u   12.131s    1:11.85 43.1%

As you can see, 5 hours was a possible value on a single-core
single-threat slow-as-ass CPU. But then the system became more
advanced, and 7 - 9 hours compile time became possible. :-)


*** end quote ***



Sadly I don't have a "copy" of my build time on my current
home PC, including a Core 2 Duo 4600 with 1.8 GHz and 2 GB RAM,
using a SATA disk, with FreeBSD 8-STABLE, but I think it was
around 5 hours for everything (including a custom kernel).

It would be nice if the build system would automatically issue
a log file or at least log message about build time and usage
statistics. If it wouldn't tell about my brain's age, I would
politely ask to have a "flower box"... ;-)



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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