make buildworld.........24 hours????

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:30:28PM -0500, Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
> I have an amd k6II 500 machine with 32 megs of ram, 20 gig 7200 rpm hard
> drive which i just installed fresh with FBSD 5.3RC1 on the whole disk,
> no boot loader.  
> 
> I cvsuped the sources yesterday around 5 pm CDT and then started a make
> buildworld.    It is now 7:15 pm CDT the following day and it is still
> grinding away... Can it really take this long?    The hard drive is
> grinding i can see from the hdd led but top reports that the box isn't
> under that heavy of a load.. 

That's not unreasonable - the performance killer will be your lack of
memory, which means that you'll be swapping a lot while compiling.

Kris
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