On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:30:28PM -0500, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: > I have an amd k6II 500 machine with 32 megs of ram, 20 gig 7200 rpm hard > drive which i just installed fresh with FBSD 5.3RC1 on the whole disk, > no boot loader. > > I cvsuped the sources yesterday around 5 pm CDT and then started a make > buildworld. It is now 7:15 pm CDT the following day and it is still > grinding away... Can it really take this long? The hard drive is > grinding i can see from the hdd led but top reports that the box isn't > under that heavy of a load..
That's not unreasonable - the performance killer will be your lack of memory, which means that you'll be swapping a lot while compiling. Kris
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