Subject: Re: Compiler Optimisation (was RE: pkgscr installation)
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Marcus Franke <marcus.franke@gmx.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/19/2005 19:18:15
Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:49:23PM +0200, Marcus Franke wrote:
> 
>>None of them:
>>
>>cpu0 at mainbus0: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 75 MHz, on-chip FPU
>>cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K 
>>external (32 b/l): cache enabled
>>cpu0 at mainbus0: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 75 MHz, on-chip FPU
>>cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K 
>>external (32 b/l): cache enabled
> 
> 
> Those are pretty decent CPUs - SuperSPARC IIs (SM71s). See
> http://mbus.sunhelp.org/modules/index.htm#perf

But just one of them, where could I get a second of these?
I bought this machine at ebay for a few bucks, because I always
wanted to own such a box.

> What disk(s) do you have? pkgsrc untarring is a notorious performance
> killer unless you have soft updates enabled or your filesystem is mounted
> async.
Its a small 2GB disc:
sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST32430W SUN2.1G, 0444> disk fixed
sd0: 2049 MB, 3992 cyl, 9 head, 116 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4197405 sectors
sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged 
queueing

# mount -v
/dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local, root file system, writes: sync 550 async 
3237)
/dev/sd0d on /var type ffs (local, writes: sync 7613 async 2292)
/dev/sd0g on /usr type ffs (local, writes: sync 405914 async 13099)
/dev/sd0e on /home type ffs (local, writes: sync 7 async 277)
kernfs on /kern type kernfs (local, writes: sync 0 async 0)

So, /usr is mounted async, but what does this mean?

Im waiting for a 10G disc, that should arrive in the next days, then Ill
reinstall the machine again. As this was just a first install to learn
about NetBSD on sparc.


Marcus