From: John P. <pa...@gm...> - 2010-01-06 04:24:27
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Dave, Have you mucked with your PARALLEL_MAKE and BB_NUMBER_THREADS site.conf variables? Increasing should hasten build times, might as well take advantage of all those cores;) John On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Dave Hylands wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Interesting. > > My machine is a Dell Studio XPS Desktop 435MT, which I bought at Future shop. > > It has: > 2.67 GHz Core I7-920 (quadcore) > 8 GB of DDR3 memory (4 x 1GB + 2 x 2GB) > 1 TB HD (7200 RPM, 32MB) Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 > > I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, 64-bit edition. > > It took 3.75 hours to complete the build on my machine. This was the > time to perform > > bitbake omap3-console-image > > after sucessfully doing it once, and then renaming /tmp to /tmp.save > > Memory usage seemed top out around 40% (2.8 GB). Swap is only at 280 MB. > CPU Usage only occasionally gets to 100% for a single core. I would > guess that the average is about 20%. > Presumably, the build is disk bound (or perhaps memory bus bound). > > I expect that the difference in processor speed, and cache sizes > account for most of the differences. > > Time for an upgrade me thinks.... > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Scott Ellis > <sco...@gm...> wrote: >>> From NewEgg >> >> AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE Deneb 3.4GHz AM3 125W Quad-core - $195 >> ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD - $130 >> G. SKILL 4GB (2x2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel - $96 x 2 - $192 >> Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache - $70 >> hec Raptor 1100CM 1000W modular >87% efficient - $160 > > For Trevor: This is starting with a successful build and I renamed tmp > to something else, so all of the source has already been fetched. > > -- > Dave Hylands > Shuswap, BC, Canada > http://www.DaveHylands.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |