Compiling jdk15 on amd64: how long?

[Virgil Champlin]

On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Alex Hayward wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Any idea how long this is supposed to take?  I'm patched and all,
>> and the linux javac seems to be working ok, but I have two javac
>> processes (one per core) at the top of my "top" list that have now
>> consumed about 170 minutes.
> ...
> The last time I compiled it on amd64 I had to disable SMP to make it
> finish.

This was my experience, too, when I was bootstrapping with linux-sun- 
jdk-1.4.2.10.  I did not need it later rebuilding with "portupgrade - 
f jdk-1.5.0p2_3".  Tyan S2881 (Opteron 246)/FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
-virgil