Re: Why is checksumming so much slower on a sparc64?
Chris Ross <[email protected]>
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Ahh, thanks, that may be it. I believe I'm running a HEAD on the i386, and a pkgsrc-2012Q3 on the sparc64.
Thanks much!
- Chris
On Oct 24, 2012, at 20:53 , Julio Merino <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Chris Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have two netbsd-6 machines, running nearly the same code. One is an i386 with 2.8ghz-ish processor(s), and one is an UltraSPARC-IIIi with a pair of 1.5 ghz processors.
>>
>> When trying to build vim from pkgsrc, the checksum checks on all of the 600+ files for the i386 takes a second or two. Where as, each of the pair of checksums seems to take more than a second. I *think*, inferring from the output rate, that the SHA1 is fast, and the RMD160 is what's taking more than a second for each file.
>>
>> Why is this? This can't be an insurmountable issue, can it?
>
> Is your pkgsrc tree up-to-date? Otherwise the lack of this change may
> explain it:
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> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2012/10/13/msg079664.html
>
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> Julio Merino / @jmmv