Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
To: Sean Hafeez <sah.list@gmail.com>
From: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@ekkobsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/28/2004 12:06:25
setenv CC_FLAGS -j5

Eh? I just stabbing in the dark here, but I do believe makefiles use the
$CC_FLAGS variable to store those gcc flags

Try it out ;)

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R. Tyler Ballance
NetBSD-FreeBSD-L4::Pistachio

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From: Sean Hafeez <sah.list@gmail.com>
To: 
Sent: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:11:04 -0700
Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?

> SS20 run 2.0BETA w/4X100Mhz HyperSPARC & 320MB RAM. I also have an 
> SS5 run OpenBSD 3.6 as a firewall (pf rules!).
> 
> The SS20 is going to be a webserver/database for my collections of junk.
> 
> BTW, can some please tell me how to setup the system so that make
> always uses -j5 on all builds of anything?
> 
> I have read all the docs, mk.conf, etc..
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:14:05 -0600, Tillman Hodgson
> <tillman@seekingfire.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:05:54AM -0700, Sean McKay wrote:
> > > Just an informal poll here...I just setup NetBSD 1.6.2 on my ss20 and
> > > am having fun setting it up. I'm curious what others are using it for
> > > on this hardware...I've got 320MB of RAM and and decent HD -- it seems
> > > a bit slow though. I'm going to put some web pages up on it and see
> > > what kind of performance I can pull out of it...
> > 
> > I a SS10 with dual Ross HyperSparc 90's running NetBSD 2.0_BETA with the
> > GENERIC.MP kernel and a 4.3GB Seagate ST34520N of unknown origin from
> > the parts box.
> > 
> > I'm using it as my Kerberos domain controller (KDC). For that role it's
> > entirely over-kill: The single 36MHz CPU I had in it originally was more
> > than sufficient to the task. I'm thinking of adding other
> > authentication/authoriziation services to the box, though I want to be
> > careful not to introduce anything that would potentially affect the
> > integrity of the KDC.
> > 
> > Some simple benchmark timings I took:
> > 
> > With the original boot prom and 36MHz CPU:
> > [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh tools kernel=SURYA
> > real    588m37.399s
> > user    476m0.142s
> > sys     92m27.577s
> > 
> > With the new 2.25 boot prom and the dual HyperSparcs at 90MHz and a MP
> > kernel:
> > [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh tools kernel=SURYA
> > real    357m40.961s
> > user    0m0.000s
> > sys     32537722m48.701s
> > [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh -j4 tools kernel=SURYA
> > real    307m2.601s
> > user    14316867m19.494s
> > sys     0m0.025s
> > [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh -j4 tools distribution
> > real    1700m51.825s
> > user    0m0.005s
> > sys     27036148m17.375s
> > 
> > -T
> > 
> > --
> > "The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how
> >  yellow everything looks."
> >     -- Randall Jarrell, _The Taste of the Age_
> >
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