impressive buildworld time

[Uwe Laverenz]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:56:16PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote:

> Just installed a new DL360 with 8 cores at 2.33 Ghz and 8 GB ram and
> 15K rpm sas-disks. When I installed the beta2 from cd 'make -j 9
> buildworld' took approx. 20 min. After a recompile of userland and
> kernel and switch to ULE it went down to:
> 
> >>> World build completed on Wed Nov 14 17:44:08 CET 2007
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 3552.428u 1298.485s 16:15.89 497.0%     6156+1325k 25257+8117io 3368pf+0w
> 
> Not very scientific and only one run but none the less my fastest
> buildworld time ever on FreeBSD. :-)

Yes, "make buildworld" is not a benchmark, I got a comparable time with
4 cores (17:02 minutes) a while ago.

This was 6.2/amd64 on a dual Opteron 285 (4 cores total), Tyan S2882-D,
2GB RAM, 3ware 9550SXU, 4x Seagate SATA 7k2 SATA RAID 10 (with RAID 5
it takes 20:09 minutes).

Uwe