Very very slow

[Vulpes Velox]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:08:01 +0200
Albert Shih <shih at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:

>  Le 27/09/2004 à 19:14:57-0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. a
>  écrit
> > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > >On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:16:38AM +0200, Albert Shih wrote:
> > > 
> > >
> > >>	32 sec to do
> > >>
> > >>cd /usr/src
> > >>time find . -type f -print > /dev/null
> > >>
> > >>and on other computer I just need 0.8 sec to do that.
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >
> > >I don't believe that, unless you already have all of /usr/src in
> > >cache.  32 seconds seems quite normal for searching and reading
> > >~55000 directory entries (on the machine I just tried it took 42
> > >seconds).
> 
> Anyway, but on this computer I need .... ~ 10 hours to do make
> buildworld, and I think.....it's verrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyy long.

The current mailing list may be useful as well as possibly waiting two
weeks or so for 5.3 to become stable.

Also dmesg could possibly be handy too.