/usr/local/etc/rc.d/*sh and slow build world in FreeBSD 5.1

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:58 AM +0100 10/10/03, freebsd-questions at markdrayton.info wrote:
>1) I can't get /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*sh to work.

I don't have any ideas to offer on this.

>2) Building kernels/worlds is MUCH slower than under 4.X. A kernel
>    used to take around an hour; it's taking about 4 under 5.1
>    (Cyrix 166mhz/64Mb RAM). Is there still a lot of debugging
>    code in 5.1 which could slow things down?

a) I assume you've read /usr/src/UPDATING in your 5.x system,
    which explains some settings that you can look at if you
    are wondering about performance.

b) the 5.x-series uses gcc 3.3.x for its compiler, while
    freebsd-4.x has stayed with gcc 2.94.  gcc 3.3.x is
    definitely much slower at *compiling* code.  If your
    only performance measurement is buildworld and buildkernel,
    then this difference in compile times is the reason
    for most of the slowdown that you're seeing.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu