feature request: record build space used

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:03:05 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:16 -0400
> > Wesley Shields <wxs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:11:48PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:59 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >>>> Yeh, an other one ;)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> It would be very useful to me to have, for each port, stored in
> >>>> the database the total size of the space it occupies, together
> >>>> with base OS and dependencies, at build time. This value should
> >>>> be updated, if bigger that current values, even if the build
> >>>> fails.
> >>> How would one know the size before the port builds?  Dependencies
> >>> are one thing, but we have no concept of size (even distfile size)
> >>> before buildscript is called.
> >> You can get a rough idea of it based upon the previous build?  Take
> >> the previous build and add on N% of space for growth?
> > 
> > Exactly. While it might fail for a few ports that suddenly grow, it
> > will work for 99%.
> > 
> > From my educated guess:
> > - for at least 50% of the ports tindy is spending more time untaring
> > the jail that doing anything else. 
> > - for 95% of the ports 2GB of RAM-based build space is more that
> > enough;
> > 
> > What I'd like is to be able to have everything in RAM for those 95%
> > without maintaining an exceptions list by hand. For the current
> > hardware QA Tindy is running on I should get at least 35% "speed"
> > improvement for a full run. (The jail tarball is cached by the fs in
> > memory for me).
> 
> So what would the size take into account?

If I use mdmfs or not. I don't have 8GB for OOo or some games.


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