using a tinderbox machine more efficiently ?

[Pav Lucistnik]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu píše v st 12. 04. 2006 v 00:44 +0300:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a new i386 tindy machine with 2 x Xeon and 6 GB RAM, but 2 ATA disks.
> http://sce-tindy.tecnik93.com/div/dmesg
> http://sce-tindy.tecnik93.com/div/PAE_SMP_GENERIC
> 
> Besides being a tinderbox it doesn't do much, at least for now.
> 
> While building ports, I didn't saw the load being more that 0.30-0.40.
> 
> Since the main bottleneck is HDD access I was thinking about using a
> 3-4GB swap-backed WRKDIR. Is it possible to configure tinderbox to use
> a custom WRKIDRPREFIX ?

Just symlink /space/<buildname> where you need it.

> Second question: since I have both CPU power and RAM, (how) can I
> configure tindy to build in more that one build in parallel ?

You can run jobs in several builds at a same time.
You can't run two jobs in same build in parallel.
 
-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes
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