Subject: Re: Still a slowdown after latest bufcache changes?
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/2004 11:43:46
Thus spake Rafal Boni ("RB> ") sometime Today...

RB> Folks:
RB> 	I cvs updated last night, rebuilt a new kernel and then did a
RB> 	complete "build.sh distribution" on my T30 (1.8Ghz P4, 256MB
RB> 	RAM) leaving it to run after I went to bed.  The build was
RB> 	done with a clean objdir, tooldir and destdirs, so every-
RB> 	thing was rebuilt from scratch.
RB>
RB> 	The build still seemed much slower than I'd expect on this
RB> 	hardware (I've only recently reinstalled XP to salvage some
RB> 	space on the disk for NetBSD, so unfortunately I don't have
RB> 	a good baseline, but it seems much slower than my desktop,
RB> 	which is a dual 700Mhz PIII with 512MB).
RB>
RB> 	Here's what build.sh says about the time:
RB>
RB> 		 build.sh started: Sat Jan 10 23:14:00 EST 2004
RB> 		 build.sh ended:   Sun Jan 11 01:22:11 EST 2004

That looks about right, actually.  It takes just a bit over an hour
for my Athlon XP1900+ to build EVERYTHING; nearly 1:20:00.
544MB core.

				--*greywolf;
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