Re: Does someone keep track of how long it takes to buildworld/kernel?

> On Jan 13, 2017, at 14:48, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 13, 2017, at 12:23, Eric Joyner <erj_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>> ^ Message ^
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>> It takes forever, but I keep on forgetting to time how long it takes, so I
>> don't know how long "forever" is.
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> Using -DNO_CLEAN on my 12.0-CURRENT / amd64 / 3GB RAM / 3 cores / VMware Fusion + open-vmtools VM…
> - … buildworld with special baked WITHOUT/MK options in src.conf: 26 mins
> - …. buildkernel of GENERIC/GENERIC-NODEBUG with stripped src.conf and MODULES_OVERRIDE: 14 minutes
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> Overall time: 40 minutes
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> Granted, I’m pretty up-to-date (just upgrading a few hundred revs at a time), but a from-scratch build on more ample Sandybridge/Haswell hardware with SSDs shouldn’t take any longer than 30 mins (if you optimize things heavily, it can be less than that).
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> If you need a beefy box to play with for building en masse (since you’re a FreeBSD dev), try the universe*.freebsd.org boxes.

Important note: unless I have a good reason to test out GENERIC, I always used GENERIC-NODEBUG, so needless to say witness and other debug bits don’t add time to my build.
Thanks,
-Ngie