Re: autoconf "make check" is reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow on Solaris 8

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:35:46AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Now with current CVS (but the system is loaded ATM):
> > | $ \time /bin/sh -n testsuite
> > | 
> > |  real     5:41.1

> I assume that means it takes only about 6 minutes on your machine?
> So it's at least 30 times faster than mine.

Yep.  And tested again now, with less load on the system, it completes
in 67 seconds (`testsuite' as of CVS 2006-04-11), vs. 76 seconds (CVS
as of yesterday).

> This is the standard Solaris 8 /bin/sh, as patched by Sun on
> 2005-02-18 in Sun patch 109324-08.  One of the patches affects how
> /tmp files are created.  Perhaps that leads to the difference we're
> observing?

It seems that patch is obsoleted by Sun patch 109324-09.[1]
The system I test on has

| -r-xr-xr-x   4 root     root       95316 Nov  6  2002 /bin/sh

and `patchadd -p' says:
| Patch: 109324-05 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr SUNWcsu

(I do not have control over the system.)

> -r-xr-xr-x   4 root     root       95320 Jan 19  2005 /bin/sh
> 
> Another thing: my /tmp isn't a swapfs; it's just an ordinary ufs file
> system.  That slows things down a bit.

Here:
| /tmp on swap

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109324-09-1