buildworld times

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Sat Feb 28 20:58:35 PST 2004


when I build freeBSD 1.1 under a chroot on a 5.0 2.8 Ghz Machine with
4GB ram, it happens in a few minutes ;-) 



On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
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