buildworld times

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:21:18PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> > > > Athlon64 3400+ (2.2 GHz), running 32-bit OS, no -j:  28m55.55s real
> > >
> > > 	That's pretty fast.  I wonder how long does the make buildkernel
> > > take. =)
> >
> > I don't have a time for that, I have the (non-j) times for:
> >
> >     make kernel-depend:  44.75s real
> >     make kernel:         5m30.31s real

Note these times are with a GENERIC kernel with only WITNESS removed.


> 	Ah, forgot all about the 64 portion of the Athlon but I wonder,
> with the current crop of processors from Intel P4C-3.4Ghz with dual
> channel memory with the 875p chipset versus the Athlon64-FX, I wonder
> which one is actually faster in terms of buildworld times.

Athlon64-FX -- while the Intel 875p chipset may have a dual-channel
memory controller, it is on the northbridge and not on the CPU.  So the
875p-based system will have much higher memory latencies.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)