Hi all! I just upgraded from ascii to beowulf a pretty decent laptop, equipped with a core i7 and 8GB of RAM.
I upgraded everything in place: so same desktop environment, same applications, same hard disk... just "apt-get dist-upgrade" essentially. I even kept gcc6 because I had it before and I need it. My test case is compiling ArcticFox, thus something in the realm of Firefox: lots of compiler activity, make, disk access, make and python. But, of course, predominant factor is compilation and linking. With ascii, I was consistently (= not just one build) doing a clean build in about 31 minutes! Quite fast for this small beast and I was happy. With beowulf, this number is consistently about 41 minutes. I say this is a very significant slowdown! Can I gain some speed back? Some setting? some spectre/meltdown mitigation? Having latest ascii, I think I had at least some of the backports. I am wary thus updating to beowulf on slower machines. Any ideas? Riccardo _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
