In message <20060118010429.GA12442@pell.home.ka8zrt.com>Douglas Wade Needham writes
>Greetings John, and the rest of the NetBSD community,
>
>I don't think it is just the sun3 port.  I did a build of a set of
>pkgsrc packages about three weeks ago with a 2.1.0 kernel, and the
>build took 76913 seconds.  Then, I noticed that 3.0 was available, and
>after making changes to my build wrapper scripts, building 3.0 into my
>sandbox, and upgrading to the 3.0 kernel, I started the same exact
>build for 3.0, and the build is still going after 186920 seconds!!!
>The same build techniques, the same pkgsrc tree, roughly the same disk
>usage on the very same drive with the main difference being a 2.1
>vs. 3.0 kernel, and the sandbox into which I chroot to do the build
>has the matching binaries produced with the same scripts.  Here are
>more details:
>
>    Kernel:		GENERIC.APM (a generic kernel with APM enabled)


this may be a dumb question, but: Is it possible APM is throttling
down your CPU when it's ``idle''?  Do you get the same behaviour if
you remove APM from your kernel, or disable APM/ACPI in your BIOS
(or both)?