On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Siju George <sgeorge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Backup Server on another Floor. > It runs on Qemu with the OS on a qcow2 Virtual Disk ( file ) and > Backup Data on Two Physical Disks. > It mirrors from Master PFSes on backup server on another floor. Also > It's own master PFSes are backed up by the slaves on the other one. > > =============================================== > load averages: 0.90, 0.56, 0.25; up 0+00:14:46 > 06:17:01 > 28 processes: 2 running, 28 active > CPU states: 62.1% user, 0.0% nice, 36.1% system, 0.5% interrupt, 1.4% idle > Memory: 36M Active, 938M Inact, 182M Wired, 94M Buf, 1843M Free > Swap: 1734M Total, 1734M Free > =============================================== > > Make Build takes a very long time on it Some times more than 8 hours. > Possibly due to the Poor perfaomance on the UnderLying REAL Hardware. > > In order to update it is it enough that I rsync /usr/src and > /usr/obj/usr/src from the faster server after building 'world' and > 'kernel' and then run only > > # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC && make installworld && make > upgrade && reboot > > If not what it the best way to update a slower machine?
I usually buildworld on the fastest box around me then cpdup the /usr/obj to the relative slow boxes. However, I still let slow boxes compile their own kernels. Best Regards, sephe -- Tomorrow Will Never Die