On 20-10-2014 23:10, Kenneth Harrison wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:45:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> >>>> Kenneth Harrison wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The build and install of binutils in Chapter 5.4 is set at 1.0 SBU as >>>>> a baseline for your calculation needs. Usage of the listed "time" >>>>> command per the example given should give you an approximate time >>>>> frame for calculating 1.0 SBU on your system that will be installing >>>>> LFS. Once you have acquired what 1.0 SBU will be on your system, you >>>>> can then calculate the overall time to build LFS completely." >>>> >>>> >>>> There are some good things here that I'll incorporate. Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- Bruce >>>>
>>> >>> So, for me in BLFS the SBU _will_ differ depending on which machine >>> I use. Which makes me wonder how useful the measurement now is. >> >> >> It's quite useful when looking at it as an order of magnitude. If the SBU >> value is 1.0 or less, I figure two minutes or less. If it's 20 SBU, then >> it's time to take a break while it churns away. Yes. > I have noticed that for a Virtual Machine (such as VMware, VirtualBox, > or Qemu), the SBU time frame can extend out as much as 6 minutes and > 16 seconds for 1.0 SBU, but that should be expected from a Virtual > system. I have SBU_LFS=121s for the host (LFS-7.1-svn) SBU_LFS=173s for VMWLFS-7.6 This is very good, couple of years ago I recall that the difference was much larger. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
