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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:52:06 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, xen-users@lists.xen.org, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing
Message-ID:  <E8150505-ECA0-4CB6-B777-A41334B8B903@FreeBSD.org>
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On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> On 19 Jun 2013, at 18:15, Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>=20
>> I've never seen a kernel build take 2 hours, much less 2 hours =
*longer*.  Are you talking about buildworld?  It would be interesting to =
know your results building stable/9 sources in your 10 environment to =
see if this is just due to "build bloat" or a true performance =
regression.
>>=20
>=20
> I copy/pasted the command from the wiki:
>=20
>> # make kernel-toolchain && make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DXENHVM && make =
installkernel KERNCONF=3DXENHVM
>=20
> On the stable/9 I only did=20
>=20
>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DXENHVM && make installkernel =
KERNCONF=3DXENHVM
>=20
>=20
> I guess the kernel-toolchain takes a long time to build=85and from =
what I can see it does a clean before rebuilding also.
>=20
> I'm doing the kernel-toolchain step only now and will report how long =
it took.
>=20
> Jeroen.

Oh.  Without any parallelism (-j X), the build will take a really long =
time.  Even with only one core, you'll get a large speedup by performing =
a parallel build since many steps of the build are I/O bound.

--
Justin=



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