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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Shared Library Status ? Message-ID: <hastyCMEtK9.r7@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CMApnr.3rB@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <2lglh5$otn@u.cc.utah.edu> <1994Mar8.120309.1230@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 18:19:21 GMT Lines: 44 In article <1994Mar8.120309.1230@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (9) writes: >In article <2lglh5$otn@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: >>In article <CMApnr.3rB@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >>>In article <hastyCM9r6q.KFB@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >>[ ... 11 minute kernel compile on old system, 22 minutes on NetBSD with >> shared libraries ... ] >>>Well, there are rather a lot of variables there! For example, you've >>>probably switched from gcc1 to gcc2. >> >>FreeBSD-current (and 1.1-Beta) is gcc2. >> >>>Building the kernel is a fairly bad case for shared libraries - lots of >>>small(ish) compilations, each with several processes being started. >> >>I am [mostly] running FreeBSD-current. >> >>My kernel compile takes four minutes for the generic config. For the >>full sources from scratch without the "ports" stuff, I spend right >>around 3 hours. >> > >What hardware is this? It's a hell of a lot faster than mine. Takes about 20 >mins for me to compile a kernel and about 8 hrs for the whole tree. > >I agree this is a very poor benchmark but with differences that large it's >interesting to see what hardware can do what. > >I've got a pretty slow machine, 33Mhz 486 ISA with 16M ram but the real >bottleneck is the IDE drive which is sucking up cpu cycles doing its DMA. On my P66 with 16MB of memory, adaptec 1542c, it takes about 4.5 minutes. I use the "-pipe" switch.... If I upgrade to a VLB scsi adapter my time could be cut in half. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X