buildworld times

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Vincent Poy wrote:

> 	I was wondering what people are getting as the fastest make
> buildworld times since it seems like a P4m-2.6Ghz 2GB RAM, 7200RPM HDD
> machine when using make -j4 buildworld or just make buildworld takes 2.5
> hours.  I guess I'm trying to look for what the average times for
> buildworld is supposed to be for a Pentium 4 Northwood based platform.

Hey Vince,

LTNS. :)

There's a number of things that affect the buildworld times. On a P4,
you're looking at:
- Kernel debug options
- Hyperthreading
- Lock contention from other processes.

2.5 hours seems a little high and would seem to indicate that you're
building world under a kernel that has all the debugging options enabled.
Could you make your kernel config available?

Regards,
Andy

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