Re: 8.0 performance issue when running build.sh?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 05:55:17AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > I have a system with (probably) enough RAM - amd64, 8/16 core/threads,
> > with 128GB, running 8.99.18 - to test if someone wants to provide an
> > explicit test scenario that can run on top of an existing "production"
> > environment.
>
> If your production environment is based on -7, it might work.
>
> Steps to reproduce (I hope, as I couldn't):
>
>  - run a netbsd-7 system

Ooops - that would be a show-stopper.  My one-and-only environment is
8.99.18 and I have no other bootable system (and no painless way to
create one).

>  - check out netbsd-7 src and xsrc
>  - run something (with proper -j) :
>
> 	build.sh -m alpha -j N build release iso-image"
>
> - save the last ~20 lines of the log somewhere
> - clean up all build results, tools, obj, .... (if on tmpfs this is not needed)
> - reboot to a netbsd-8 kernel
> - (if on tmpfs, redo the checkout)
> - run the same build.sh again

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