On Thursday 15 November 2007 11:42:21 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >> Jonathan Horne wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:45:07 pm Aryeh M. Friedman
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> Impressive ;-) My main machine (with an Athlon XP @ 2GHz)
> >>>>> takes ~2 hours to build kernel and world (I use a script to
> >>>>> do that). My other box is running -CURRENT and takes ~11
> >>>>> hours to build kernel and world (Celeron 500...).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just to supply some numbers that "go the other direction"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> With no -j and running gnome and doing other things in the
> >>>> foreground (watching a avi) 1 hr 3 mins on a e6850 w/ 4 gig
> >>>> (amd64)
> >>>
> >>> p4 540 3.2GHz, 1GB ram:
> >>>
> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>>>> World build completed on Thu Nov 15 19:15:05 CST 2007
> >>>
> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> real    63m8.635s user    102m44.096s sys     10m44.889s
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]#
> >>>
> >>> heh, i have appropriately renamed the thread.  :)  with -j 8
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>
> >> My Pentium-D 3G DualCore w/2G memory and a pretty vanilla SATA
> >> drive does buildworld and 3 different kernels in 68 minutes wall
> >> time building 6.3-PRE (aka -STABLE) using -j20.
> >
> > SMP kernels on STABLE (6.x) are going to perform worse than SMP
> > kernels on CURRENT (7-RELENG / 8-CURRENT), depending on the
> > scheduler used (4BSD vs ULE scheduler), as well as a variety of
> > other factors.
> >
> > Remember... performance not only depends upon clock speed or the
> > number of cores you have, but also what caching/prefetching scheme
> > FreeBSD uses (not sure if it's fetches large amounts infrequently
> > or small amounts frequently), how much memory is available to make
> > and its spawned processes (gcc, awk, etc), as well as the number of
> >  processes active on the machine, and host usage (high disk usage,
> > high memory usage, etc).
> >
> > After reading through the thread, I noticed that people are making
> > comparing apples to oranges, as...
>
> Some people are taking this thread *WAY TOO SERIOUS* as far I can tell
> it is meant as a light hearted lets post funny numbers thread.

And here I was thinking it was a 'my machine can beat up your machine' 
thread. ;)

David
-- 
Controlling you through microchips since 1999.
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