32bit PowerPC questions.

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:45 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 07:35 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > >  > real       117m16.886s
> > >  > user       133m27.480s
> > >  > sys        20m47.314s
> > >  > 
> > >  > How does that compare with koji builds?
> > > 
> > > The last one I timed yesterday took about 4-5 hours.
> > 
> > Just for ppc32 kernels, or the whole kernel koji job?
> 
> According to koji
> (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=680976)
> 
> Created Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:01:43 UTC 
> Completed Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:06:09 UTC
> 
> so 2 hours.
> 
> Comparatively the x86_64 build took 50 minutes.
> 
> That time holds true for the last couple builds, but if you go back
> farther to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=678487
> you'll see one that took far longer, a full 5 hours.  Now that box may
> have been building something else at the time, it's a little difficult
> to pull that kind of information.
> 
> What's disturbing is from that point back, all the ppc build times are 4
> hours or longer, some even 7 hours.  On different hosts too, not just a
> specific slow host.  Did the PPC config change after
> kernel-2.6.26-0.87.rc7.git2.fc10 ?

Yes.  Dave dropped a bunch of modules.

But my timing was done with that change included.  So the current koji
timings are on par with what I see on a G5 anyway.  Which is still sad.

josh