On 7 Jul, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 05:06:03PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: >> The other machine is my Pentium-M laptop, which is mostly used for light >> browsing and as a VNC client when I'm on the road. Performance is >> acceptable for those uses. Both machines run stripped down UP kernels to >> avoid wasting RAM unnecessarily and to optimize CPU cycles on the laptop. >> >> [...] I've managed to commit changes that break UP builds and not known >> it until I received reports of broken builds from other users. > > :-) That's funny: you run custom UP kernels, and yet managed to break UP > builds with the breakage being unknown to you until you received reports > from other users, lol.
Yeah, definitely ironic ... The Via machine basically only gets security updates. With only 256 MB of RAM, it's probably too wimpy to self-host, and I hate to think about how long buildworld would take. I cross build releases on a more modern machine and use a custom freebsd-update to keep it up to date, with itself is a PITA. I think packaged base would be less of a hassle. The laptop gets more frequent updates and is able to self-host. Doing buildworld + buildkernel takes a really long time. It looks like my last buildworld (11-STABLE) took nearly 14 hours. This was my fastest machine for quite a while. I'm planning on doing an update this weekend in preparation for an upcoming trip. > On a related note, did you measure how much (e.g. in terms of battery > life) your laptop gains from using the UP kernel? Could you also share > your config? I'm using Pentium-M laptop as my primary machine as well, > and always eager to squeeze something more out of it. Thanks, I don't have any data for battery life. Almost all of my usage is with line power. Config file: include GENERIC nooptions SMP nodevice ahci nodevice mvs nodevice siis nodevice ahc nodevice ahd nodevice esp nodevice hptiop nodevice isp nodevice mpt nodevice mps nodevice mpr nodevice ncr nodevice sym nodevice trm nodevice adv nodevice adw nodevice aha nodevice aic nodevice bt nodevice ncv nodevice nsp nodevice stg nodevice isci nodevice ch nodevice ses nodevice ctl nodevice amr nodevice arcmsr nodevice asr nodevice ciss nodevice dpt nodevice hptmv nodevice hptnr nodevice hptrr nodevice hpt27xx nodevice iir nodevice ips nodevice mly nodevice twa nodevice tws nodevice aac nodevice aacp nodevice aacraid nodevice ida nodevice mfi nodevice mlx nodevice mrsas nodevice pmspcv nodevice pst nodevice twe nodevice nvme nodevice nvd nodevice puc nodevice bxe nodevice de nodevice em nodevice igb nodevice ixgb nodevice le nodevice ti nodevice txp nodevice vx nodevice ae nodevice age nodevice alc nodevice ale nodevice bce nodevice bfe nodevice bge nodevice cas nodevice dc nodevice et nodevice gem nodevice hme nodevice jme nodevice lge nodevice msk nodevice nge nodevice nve nodevice pcn nodevice sf nodevice sge nodevice sis nodevice sk nodevice ste nodevice stge nodevice tl nodevice tx nodevice vge nodevice vr nodevice vte nodevice wb nodevice xl nodevice cs nodevice ed nodevice ex nodevice ep nodevice fe nodevice ie nodevice sn nodevice xe nodevice bwi nodevice bwn nodevice ipw nodevice iwi nodevice iwn nodevice malo nodevice mwl nodevice ral nodevice wi nodevice wpi nodevice virtio nodevice virtio_pci nodevice vtnet nodevice virtio_blk nodevice virtio_scsi nodevice virtio_balloon nooptions HYPERV nodevice hyperv nooptions XENHVM nodevice xenpci nodevice vmx _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
