Compiling on the Cobalt RaQ2 isn't fast. It's actually rather sluggish
when you come right down to it. Now whether that is a function of the
MIPS chip, a slow bus speed, or a slow IDE drive, I can't
say, although I suspect it may be a slow bus speed (the MIPS
based SGI system I
used at FAU, while only 33 MHz, was fast—the only things faster
were the newer MIPS based SGIs).
Time it took to compile various packages on a 250MHz MIPS based Cobalt RaQ2
Package |
Real time |
User time |
System time |
MySQL 4.1.11 |
312m, 31.074s |
288m, 52.820s |
20m, 32.900s |
Bind 9.3.1 |
51m, 0.245s |
47m, 2.640s |
3m, 20.260s |
Apache 2.0.54 |
84m, 26.658s |
66m, 6.710s |
16m, 45.680s |
PHP 4.3.11 |
56m, 17.193s |
45m, 44.070s |
9m, 52.470s |
These were just the packages I kept the compile times for—the rest
(like OpenSSL or NTP were just as slow to compile.
I wonder though … if there is a way to tune the IDE drivers to get some
better throughput …
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