buildworld in 45 min!

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Thu, February 5, 2015 3:51 pm, Bob Willcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:01:41AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> I got a Sun Fire X4100 for 60 pounds off ebay:
>>
>> FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014
>> CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2220 (2792.64-MHz K8-class CPU)
>> real memory  = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
>> avail memory = 16595623936 (15826 MB)
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>> FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 2 core(s)
>>
>> It does buildworld -j8 in under 45 min.
>> That's really fast!
>> I'm used to 4 hour ia64 builds.
>> Time to move on perhaps...
>>
>> Anton
>
> Not trying to show anyone up (really), but you can just imagine how
> shocked I
> was when I first ran a buildworld on my current workstation system in 11
> minutes!
>
> FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #3 r277033: Sun Jan 11 17:07:24 CST 2015
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz (3300.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
> real memory  = 34359738368 (32768 MB)
> avail memory = 33184337920 (31647 MB)
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 12 CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 SMT threads
>
> The latest run was 11:43 (looks like I'm losing a little ground). This is
> with -j12.

I couple of times had notices incomplete build with -j16 (or whatever
those boxes allowed), ever since run buildworld as a single thread...
Maybe just me ;-)

Valeri

>
> I can remember building 386bsd back in the early '90s on a 386 system and
> it taking
> just under 24 hours!  :)
>


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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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