diff --git a/chapter04/aboutsbus.xml b/chapter04/aboutsbus.xml
index dccf59fe7..a442c20ab 100644
--- a/chapter04/aboutsbus.xml
+++ b/chapter04/aboutsbus.xml
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
unit of time.
For example, consider a package whose compilation time is 4.5
- SBUs. This means that if your system took 10 minutes to compile and
+ SBUs. This means that if your system took 4 minutes to compile and
install the first pass of binutils, it will take
- approximately 45 minutes to build the example package.
+ approximately 18 minutes to build the example package.
Fortunately, most build times are shorter than one SBU.
SBUs are not entirely accurate because they depend on many
@@ -36,6 +36,36 @@
to give an estimate of how long it might take to install a package, but the
numbers can vary by as much as dozens of minutes in some cases.
+ On some newer systems, the motherboard is capable of contolling
+ the system clock speed. This can be controlled with a command such as
+ powerprofilesctl. This is not available in LFS, but
+ may be available on the host distro. After LFS is complete, it can be
+ added to a system with the procedures at the
+
+ BLFS power-profiles-daemon page.
+
+ Before measuring the build time of any package it is advisable to use a
+ system power profile set for maximum performance (and maximum power
+ consumption).
+
+ Otherwise the measured SBU value may be inaccurate because the
+ system may react differently when building
+ or other packages.
+
+ Be aware that a significant inaccuracy can still show up even if the same
+ profile is used for both packages because the system may respond slower if
+ the system is idle when starting the build procedure. Setting the power
+ profile to performance
will minimize this problem. And
+ obviously doing so will also make the system build LFS faster.
+
+ If powerprofilesctl is available, issue the
+ powerprofilesctl set performance command to select
+ the performance profile. Some distros provides the
+ tuned-adm command for managing the profiles instead of
+ powerprofilesctl, on these distros issue the
+ tuned-adm profile throughput-performance command to
+ select the throughput-performance profile.
+
When multiple processors are used in this way, the SBU units in the
book will vary even more than they normally would. In some cases, the make
@@ -44,10 +74,11 @@
interleaved. If you run into a problem with a build step, revert to a
single processor build to properly analyze the error messages.
- The times presented here are based upon using four cores (-j4). The
+ The times presented here for all packages
+ (except which is based on one core)
+ are based upon using four cores (-j4). The
times in Chapter 8 also include the time to run the regression tests for
the package unless specified otherwise.
-
diff --git a/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml b/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml
index 39365477d..f6b7f0f90 100644
--- a/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml
+++ b/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
%general-entities;
]>
-
+