HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:45:36PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
> I have another box (of many) running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 with 2 GB
> RAM and a Athlon64 2,2GHz CPU having 800(!) ports installed. Can you
> imagine how long this box will be occupied by 'portupgrade -af'? I guess
> 'cherry-picking' is the only solution.

How many of those 800 ports are actually necessary and used?
It would be better to get generate a complete list of your
installed ports, use pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete to remove
all ports, and then selectively re-install ports that are
actually used.

> FreeBSD 8.0 on AMD64 does have serious performance issues these days,
> try to compile a compiler (gcc44, for instance) and watch how bumpy your
> X11 or how network traffic on a 'headless' server becomes. Kernel
> compilation time has been increased by approx 10 minutes on the 8 core
> box with 16 GB RAM since ~ 4 months now. I know, this is a kind of off
> topic for the questiojns discussed at the moment, but I guess those
> problems and fun are guaranteed for those having lots of ports, FreeBSD
> 8 running on AMD64 ;-))
> 

I compile gcc trunk on my 2 cpu amd64 based system almost
everyday.  I don't see the performance issue you seem to
have.  Do you use ULE?  If yes, then switch to 4BSD.

-- 
Steve