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Am Sonntag, 11. Juli 2004 01:29 schrieb Chris Gianelloni: |
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> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 19:08, Alexander Mieland wrote: |
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> > ACK. |
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> > it's surely in our mind to provide as much information as we can. I'm |
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> > also planning on a second dedicated machine, which has a Pentium 4 |
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> > with HT-technology to provide the SMP-part of the merge-times. In the |
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> > future, if all is running and the response of the users is good |
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> > enough, we hope that we can also provide the merge-times for other |
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> > architectures than x86. |
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> Trust me when I tell you that a P4 w/ HT is *nowhere* near the speed of |
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> true SMP. You're better off going with your arbitrary calculations |
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> below. |
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> While I do think this information is useful, I still think the best |
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> method is to come up with a new number, rather than time. A good one |
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> (stolen from LFS) is the BU or Bash Unit. The time it takes to compile |
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> bash is always 1BU. |
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> SMP is ignored, since it skews the results. So would distcc... The |
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> idea is not to even try to give the exact time for emerging things for |
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> everybody, but rather to have a strong baseline "average" that hits |
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> most people. |
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sorry, I'll answer tomorrow. It's now 01:40am. :) |
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But that's a fantastic idea. why isn't it mine? *g* |
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I've also used lfs, a few years ago. |
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> > By the way, as long as we dont have a second machine with |
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> > smp-support, it should be possibly to get reasonably accurate results |
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> > if we multiply the number of cpus and then divide through a factor |
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> > like 1.2. You can test it, it should be reasonably accurate. |
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> > But as I said, we are planning on a second machine with smp and also |
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> > on merge-time information for other architectures. |
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Alexander Mieland System: Gentoo 2004.1, 2.6.7 SMP |
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APP - Another PHP Program Registered Linux-User #249600 |
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http://www.php-programs.de http://counter.li.org |
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http://www.mieland-programming.de s/Alexander Mieland/dma147 |
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