Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:29:34PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> If I throw jis208.enc into the pot, then without -O it is 12s >> and with -O approx 4 minutes for a trivial saving. > >Whatever is default on 14550 didn't make a very nice noise while compiling >on my FreeBSD box. Load average was 0.11, and one of the disks was thrashing >a lot. [Unfortunately I have upgraded to hard disks without LED jumpers, so >I can no longer use the front panel blinkenlights to say whether it harassing >the source directory, /tmp, swap or /usr] > >Maybe I should figure out how vmstat works, but I have my suspicion that it's >hammering the machine in the wrong way, and maybe it could trade using more >memory for more less disk access in order to compile faster. >[Then again, more memory => swap => disks, and as best I can tell on FreeBSD >less memory => free memory used as extra disk buffers, so the OS is doing its >best however you config things]. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
That version would have been doing substring search on on EUC_JP. There are some large hashes - but I have not had a problem on my machines (but even the laptop has 192M). 14564 will stop doing the search - but perhaps will use slightly more memory as a result. > >Nicholas Clark -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
