Re: Buildworld Benchmarks

2011-05-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Devin, Have a look at ccache, it might help (if you do not clean the cache every time a buildworld is done). As a comparison, my Intel i7 (8 core) CPU, finished the buildworld (-j16) in ~19 minutes (if I remember correctly). Cheers. ___

Re: Buildworld Benchmarks

2011-05-18 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-05-18 02:50, Devin Teske: Hi List, What's the fastest anyone has every completed buildworld on a single machine? No idea. The reason I ask is because we just got some new hardware in and decided to benchmark it using buildworld. Nice! Just as a quick test, we decided to perform

Re: Buildworld Benchmarks

2011-05-18 Thread Reko Turja
We thought going tmpfs would make things faster, but that resulted in over 13 minutes (huh? you'd think a RAM disk would be smoking compared to even the SSDs that we used to achieve ~9 min; do note that we did make sure to nullfs mount a tmpfs-based directory onto /usr/obj -- though the

Re: Buildworld Benchmarks

2011-05-18 Thread krad
On 18 May 2011 01:50, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi List, What's the fastest anyone has every completed buildworld on a single machine? The reason I ask is because we just got some new hardware in and decided to benchmark it using buildworld. Just as a quick test, we decided to