Endless compile time due to..?

[dlind]

Hello!

Yesterday I decided to dust off my old PII 450Mhz (1GB ram) and transform it into a mailserver with the help of FreeBSD 8.2. So I started out with

cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix/ && make install clean

and noticed that the configure took a very long time to finish and the compilation itself is barely moving.

I figure that the process should be somewhat faster than this. When I check top I notice that the process cc1 takes up 100% of the CPU. Is this normal or should I investigate this further?

Any idea is a great idea!

Regards,

David

 

[rusty]

Ctrl+T in the running terminal might give some more output.
Postfix shouldn't take very long to build.

 

[wblock@]

Yes, a Pentium II will take a while to compile things. 100% CPU in cc1 while it's compiling is normal.

 

[DutchDaemon]

If you're on that slow a CPU consider using packages whenever you can and only use ports when you need certain non-default options.

 

[UNIXgod]

Having a nice slim kernel on that box should improve compile times drastically.

 

[phoenix]

And just how would a slim kernel affect how fast a CPU can compile C code? Compilation times are limited by the speed of the CPU, the speed/amount of RAM, and the speed of the disks. Not the size of the kernel.