On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:23:20 -0400 Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx_at_aldan.algebra.com> wrote: > > If the card is a 16bit pcmcia card make sure the bridge is set to 16bit. > > How do I do that? On my old Thinkpad you had to access the BIOS and there were pcmcia settings in one of the menus. It was set to 16bit, changing it made it possible to use a realtek8139-based cardbus card. This was in the 5.0-CURRENT days, btw, so YMMV. > > I wouldn't blame WITNESS on this. Laptops, especially old ones, have > > incredibly slow disks. The buildworld process is heavily i/o bounded, > > my bet is on the disk subsystem. > > According to systat and top, the CPU is never idle -- as would've been the > case, if the I/O were the limiting factor. The Sys-component of `systat -vm' > was steadily above 50%. > > Now that I have a witness-less kernel, the builds are, indeed, I/O bound. Out of curiosity, how long does it take now for a buildworld run? The only full world build I ever did on my old laptop was for OpenBSD and I left overnight. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <flynn_at_energyhq.es.eu.org> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1Received on Wed Aug 31 2005 - 18:38:43 UTC
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