Subject: Re: why do we do it
To: Erik Bertelsen <bertelsen.erik@gmail.com>
From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@macfinity.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/21/2005 17:05:08
> I have an old DECStation 5000/133 that where I rebuild netbsd-current
> from time to time.
> 
> Just for fun I did a full rebuild (without X11) and observed that it
> took more than a week:
> 
> time sh build.sh -E
> 
>    717258.27 real    449456.93 user    247891.29 sys
> 
> Also seen from the log:
> 
>          build.sh started: Fri Aug 12 12:01:56 CEST 2005
>          build.sh ended:   Sat Aug 20 19:16:05 CEST 2005
> 
> 
> I wonder how long time a full NetBSD build takes on the slowest hardware
> able to do the build itself :-)
> 
> 
> 
> - Erik

hm,

that's interesting numbers; the slowest machine i run NetBSD on is an
Amiga 1200 with 68040/40 and 128MByte RAM -- it does a full build (with
X11 IIRC) in 2 1/2 days. makes me wonder why the 040 is that faster than
the R3000... Spec92 were approx. 25/24 (int|fp) for the R3000/33, and
19.7/16.5 for an 68040/40.

timo