Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Mars G. Miro
On 5/8/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: > Actually, it's not about having to finish building da world in da > smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed > things up... I've made similar tests in the past, and my conclusion is that it's n

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 07/05/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: > Actually, it's not about having to finish building da world in da > smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed > things up... . . . By the way, please stop writing "da" instead of "the". It l

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mars G. Miro wrote: > Actually, it's not about having to finish building da world in da > smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed > things up... I've made similar tests in the past, and my conclusion is that it's not worth it. Using a memory disk for /usr/obj doesn't

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 2, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Mars G. Miro wrote: - front USB ports wont work for a USB keyboard, just use da ports at da back. applies to X4100 as well. I think sun just makes them that way :-) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:29:05AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote: > >You definitely should be measuring some difference - you need to use > >time(1) though instead of just estimating. > > > > I did use time, here: > > make -j32 buildworld: > disk > 3229.975u 8981.269s 18:55.21 1075.6%3804+2164k

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Mars G. Miro
I've read a lot of threads in da past (and da BSDCan 2006 paper) regarding mfs on /usr/src and /usr/obj to speed up buildworlds, unfortunately it doesnt seem to improve things. I've tried both a malloc and swap based async non-softupdates mfs (and rebooted da box every after) but my buildworld s

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Dominic Marks
Mars G. Miro wrote: Greetz, I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way Opteron (dmesg shows 16 CPUs) w/c has 32G RAM. FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 runs fine on it despite: - 'reboot' doesnt work, machine just hangs in there. - front USB ports wont work for a USB keyboard, just use da p

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Mars G. Miro
On 5/3/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:39:55AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote: > Greetz, > >I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way > Opteron (dmesg shows 16 CPUs) w/c has 32G RAM. FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 runs > fine on it despite: > - 'reboot

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:39:55AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote: > Greetz, > >I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way > Opteron (dmesg shows 16 CPUs) w/c has 32G RAM. FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 runs > fine on it despite: > - 'reboot' doesnt work, machine just hangs in there. There is

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Andras Gót
Hi, Can you provide some more details about what's not working? Someone may be interested in (at least trying) fixing these bugs. :) Did you try buildworld with -j option? Regards, Andras Mars G. Miro wrote: Greetz, I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way Opteron (

mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-02 Thread Mars G. Miro
Greetz, I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way Opteron (dmesg shows 16 CPUs) w/c has 32G RAM. FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 runs fine on it despite: - 'reboot' doesnt work, machine just hangs in there. - front USB ports wont work for a USB keyboard, just use da ports at da back. I