mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600
Ulrich Spoerlein
uspoerlein at gmail.com
Tue May 15 21:39:32 UTC 2007
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Mars G. Miro wrote:
> > now we know buildworld on mfs dont really matter on high-end machines,
>
> No, we knew that before. I could have told you. :-)
>
> That was the first thing I tested when I first had access
> to a machine with sufficient RAM, about 10 years ago.
> I put /usr/src on an MFS disk, ran buildworld, and was
> disappointed.
I'm not intimately familiar with the build process, but I reckon it
reads several small files several times (ie, they are cached) runs a CPU
bound process, then writes a few bigger files once (objects and
binaries).
Not a good MFS test scenario, indeed.
Ulrich Spoerlein
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