On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 15:13, STeve Andre' wrote: > I have one rather annoying problem however, which is that I'm running > about 25+% slower than in i386 mode. A kernel compile used to take > about 3:20 under i386 mode, and now takes about about 4:10 or so. > There are also random freezes of a second to perhaps 20 seconds; > they never kill the machine, just freeze it.
Not always easy to tell because compiling does a lot of thing. You can trying running some basic benchmarks like md5 -t or untar the ports tree to isolate CPU or filesystem. But it's entirely possible that gcc itself is just slower on amd64. Compilers probably benefit the least from 64-bits.
