And Here I Thought buildworld/makeworld Was IO Bound

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Mon Feb 10 20:48:16 UTC 2014


On 02/10/2014 02:43 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:40:09PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> On 02/10/2014 10:07 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>>
>>> This machine is 48-core (4 x 12 cores) Opteron 6174 (2.2GHz), 128GB RAM,
>>> with 5 drives in a raidz1 on a PERC H700 controller.
>>>
>>> Glen
>>>
>>
>> So ... in that config, you're saying that a buildworld/kernel time
>> on the order of 30-ish minutes is about right, is that correct?
>>
>
> Yes, for a stock (GENERIC kernel, empty src.conf and make.conf), this is
> correct.
>
> Glen
>


'Really interesting given that I am getting comparable times
on a lowly quad I5 with 8GB.  It speaks pretty loudly
to just how much you can scale up the compilation.  Of course,
I'd expect your boxes to be able to do more of them simultaneously
(scale out)...

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