Subject: Re: 3.0 Very Slow?
To: Douglas Wade Needham <cinnion@ka8zrt.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2006 13:50:43
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:04:29PM -0500, Douglas Wade Needham wrote:
> Greetings John, and the rest of the NetBSD community,
> 
> I don't think it is just the sun3 port.  I did a build of a set of
> pkgsrc packages about three weeks ago with a 2.1.0 kernel, and the
> build took 76913 seconds.  Then, I noticed that 3.0 was available, and
> after making changes to my build wrapper scripts, building 3.0 into my
> sandbox, and upgrading to the 3.0 kernel, I started the same exact
> build for 3.0, and the build is still going after 186920 seconds!!!
> The same build techniques, the same pkgsrc tree, roughly the same disk
> usage on the very same drive with the main difference being a 2.1
> vs. 3.0 kernel, and the sandbox into which I chroot to do the build
> has the matching binaries produced with the same scripts.  Here are
> more details:

Is you sandbox still using the 2.1 binaries, or is it using 3.0 binaries ?
The difference in time could just be in the compiler, or make.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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