Oliver Fromme wrote: > Mars G. Miro wrote: > > now we know buildworld on mfs dont really matter on high-end machines, > > No, we knew that before. I could have told you. :-) > > That was the first thing I tested when I first had access > to a machine with sufficient RAM, about 10 years ago. > I put /usr/src on an MFS disk, ran buildworld, and was > disappointed.
I'm not intimately familiar with the build process, but I reckon it reads several small files several times (ie, they are cached) runs a CPU bound process, then writes a few bigger files once (objects and binaries). Not a good MFS test scenario, indeed. Ulrich Spoerlein -- "The trouble with the dictionary is you have to know how the word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled." -- Will Cuppy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
