Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:51:18 -0400 | From | Peter Desnoyers <> | Subject | Happiness is fast compilation over NFS |
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After a great deal of disappointment because the nice fast Linux systems we bought at work (mostly at my urging) compile slower than diskless sun3s*, I finally sat down and started playing around with the GNU assembler.
Lo and behold, if you define FILE_OFFSET_IS_CHAR_INDEX at the top of libbfd.c (or in bfd/Makefile) and recompile, writes get coalesced properly and compilation over NFS works the way it should.
I just thought there would be other people out on the list who would appreciate this information...
[*no flames, please. With compiler, source, and target all over NFS - which is a typical configuration with most modern workstations - Linux compile performance is awful. The problem is 2-fold - the Linux NFS client doesn't coalesce small writes into larger ones, and the GNU assembler + GNU libc interact by default in a way which causes the assembler to do most of its writing in chunks of 20 to 100 bytes.]
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