[rescue] Ultra 1 newbie q'ns

[Mike Hebel]

On Dec 27, 2006, at 8:50 PM, John Floren wrote:

> On 12/27/06, Michael-John Turner <mj at turner.org.za> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:12:57AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix 
>> wrote:
>>> It took me 43 minutes to build irssi and my Ultra 1 was busy at the
>>> time, and this is a new install with few other packages built.
>>
>> Indeed. I compile software all the time on my 200Mhz US-I U2 and it 
>> doesn't
>> take anywhere near as long as 3 hours for fairly complex software like
>> postfix and dovecot.
>>
>> Some suggestions for the OP:
>> - make sure your filesystems are mounted with softdeps enabled
>> - pass -pipe to gcc (put "COPTS+=-pipe" in /etc/mk.conf) - it 
>> prevents gcc
>>   creating unnecessary temporary files on disk, speeding up 
>> compilation
>> - make sure you have enough RAM - 64-bit LP systems _love_ RAM
>>
>> -mj
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>
> The machine is an Ultra 1 @ 175 Mhz and 64 MB of RAM. I'm sure RAM is
> really the bottleneck here.
>
> Another reason it took so long was that, as I said, it had to compile
> a lot of dependencies. I believe that was the first thing I had
> compiled on that machine (shows my priorities). Anyway, that box
> blazes compared to the PII, 32 MB laptop I just installed FreeBSD on.

Trade you a PII with 32MB for a P166 with 96MB running OpenBSD.

Or how about a 110mhz RDI Powerlite with 32M running Damn Small Linux?

;-)
Mike Hebel
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