From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 19:41:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE17416A420 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:41:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cederstrand.dk) Received: from mail.itu.dk (pluto.itu.dk [130.226.142.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A8513C48A for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:41:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cederstrand.dk) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by mail.itu.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4F532DA3B for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:05:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at itu.dk Received: from superman.itu.dk ([130.226.142.5]) by localhost (daredevil.itu.dk [130.226.142.26]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZityXaU0HNzK for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:05:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wimac.littlebit.dk (unknown [85.233.238.191]) by superman.itu.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471BD9E6A3 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:05:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46F95BE7.6050005@cederstrand.dk> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:05:11 +0200 From: Erik Cederstrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: <46F7A0CA.7040009@cederstrand.dk> <20070924144758.GA60358@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <46F8B1E0.6060008@cederstrand.dk> <20070925151942.GB76413@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20070925151942.GB76413@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Optimizing "make release" X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:41:28 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> Brooks Davis wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> >> [...] >>>> If I ignore documentation distfiles (will this affect benchmarks in any >>>> way?), AFAICT the only distribution sets I need are base, proflibs, >>>> kernels and (maybe) lib32. Is there a way to get "make release" to do >>>> just that? I'm open to other suggestions, of course. >>> To just create a working image you can just do: >>> make buildworld >>> make buildkernel >>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory installworld >>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory distribution >>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory installkernel >> This doesn't seem to create the distribution sets I want. It just creates >> the hierarchy of files which are eventually going to be on the hard-disk on >> the clients. I may be wrong, but it seems that to be able to use sysinstall >> to install the clients, I need to create distribution sets like the ones >> supplied here: >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/ > > Ah, I didn't realized you wanted to do that. If you do want to use sysinstall, > then you do indeed to use make release. The various NO* options documented in > the release(7) manpage and the makefile should be useful here. Ok, thanks. > That said, I can't imagine why you'd want sysinstall to be involved in > a automated benchmark system. Incompetence is probably the best answer :-) > Doing what it does using a hand rolled script is way easier then trying work with it. Ok, so are you suggesting something like this?: 1. make world, distribution, kernel 2. make any necessary changes to config files 3. cram the result onto a custom mfs (or make it available somewhere) 4. boot using the custom mfs as root device 5. point init_path in loader.conf to my own script which: 5a. prepares (bsdlabel, newfs etc.) the hard-disk 5b. mounts the hard-disk and copies the distribution files over 5. reboot 6. install any necessary packages 7. run benchmarks Erik