Re: buildworld times

From: Steve Kargl (sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:28:08 -0800
    To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
    
    

    On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 08:24:59PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
    >
    > > > 2.5 hours seems a little high and would seem to indicate that you're
    > > > building world under a kernel that has all the debugging options enabled.
    > > > Could you make your kernel config available?
    > >
    > > Yeah, I recall that -CURRENT on a Mobile PII 366Mhz took the
    > > same amount of time so I would imagine the P4 would be faster since I
    > > remember PIII running at 800Mhz or so would take about 2 hours and the
    > > Athlon K7 at 1.2Ghz was about a little over an hour. I'm using the
    > > standard GENERIC kernel and do have the debugging options enabled.
    >
    > Turning off the debugging options (especially WITNESS) can have a dramatic
    > effect on performance. Give it a spin. :-)

    If you're into world stones as some simple measure of performance,
    you need to also consider malloc

    ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf

    and you should also consider adding somethings to make.conf (e.g.,
    NOPROFILE=true, etc.)

    -- 
    Steve
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