Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:36:35 UTC
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 05:55:32PM -0600, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 11/28/21 16:07, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > 
> > %  ps -ww -p 77387
> >    PID TT  STAT     TIME COMMAND
> > 77387  2  R    40:34.67 c++
> > 
> > 40 minutes for 1 file with many exceeding 30 minutes seems a tad bit
> > excessive.
> 
> I would bet you have a hardware issue.  I've never seen a buildworld take
> more than a few hours and that was on some very old hardware.
> 

It's certainly not the latest and greatest, 
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7250  @ 2.00GHz (1995.04-MHz K8-class CPU)
...
ada0: <Patriot Burst SBFM91.0> ACS-4 ATA SATA 3.x device
ada0: Serial Number 1B0607771A0800257271
ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

but this laptop has built FreeBSD for several years and each
year and with new import of llvm the buildworld times go up,
up, up...

buildworld is essentially the only thing running on it.

last pid:  4921;  load averages:  2.17,  2.12,  2.29; b up 4+22:40:32  16:35:53
78 processes:  3 running, 75 sleeping
CPU:  0.2% user, 98.0% nice,  1.4% system,  0.4% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 1045M Active, 1543M Inact, 11M Laundry, 776M Wired, 395M Buf, 575M Free
Swap: 3881M Total, 84M Used, 3798M Free, 2% Inuse

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
 4918 root          1 106    4   220M   153M RUN      1   2:17  97.05% c++
 4763 root          1 106    4  1140M   924M CPU0     0  13:29  95.20% c++
 4921 kargl         1  20    0    14M  3392K CPU1     1   0:00   1.47% top
 1018 kargl         3  21    0   169M    23M select   0  50:22   1.14% Xorg
 4889 kargl         1  20    0    22M  8636K select   0   0:00   0.16% xterm