re: Strange behaviour

2011-05-31 Thread matthew green
Despite the level of System time, I was able to run a complete build.sh -j48 release in less than 45 minutes. And afterwards, I was able to build a complete new kernel in 44 seconds. (I guess most all of the source directory was cached somewhere in that 32GB of RAM!) *Shrug* that's

Strange behaviour

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Goyette
The system: dual-12-core AMD Opteron-6172 (total 24 cores at 3.2GHz), and 32GB RAM. (The motherboard is a ASUS KGPE-D16). While running a 'build.sh -j48 release' I notice that there seems to be a rather excessive amount of System Time. Running systat(1) I can see long periods of 60% to 70%

Re: Strange behaviour

2011-05-29 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 06:24:06PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: The system: dual-12-core AMD Opteron-6172 (total 24 cores at 3.2GHz), and 32GB RAM. (The motherboard is a ASUS KGPE-D16). While running a 'build.sh -j48 release' I notice that there seems to be a rather excessive amount of System

Re: Strange behaviour

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Goyette
BTW, it was definitely a typo in the original - my system is 24 cores at 2.1GHz, not 3.2GHz. On Sun, 29 May 2011, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 06:24:06PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: The system: dual-12-core AMD Opteron-6172 (total 24 cores at 3.2GHz), and 32GB RAM. (The

Re: Strange behaviour

2011-05-29 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 07:37:17PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: Despite the level of System time, I was able to run a complete build.sh -j48 release in less than 45 minutes. And afterwards, I was able to build a complete new kernel in 44 seconds. (I guess most all of the source directory was