HOWTO reduce time of build ?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 9/15/10 6:24 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> JMC> > I have installed Tinderbox 3.3.
> JMC> > How can i reduce time for building packages ? I own a quad core CPU.
> JMC> > I must use more BUILDS ( jail + ports ) in parallel or exist something like make -j ?
> JMC> > Thanks for a great tool.
> JMC> 
> JMC> You can use multiple parallel builds, but the -j does not work.  You can
> JMC> also make use of tmpfs as backing store to decrease I/O time.  Other
> JMC> users (like itetcu) may be able to offer some more insight.  This is
> JMC> something I would love to see written up in an FAQ/whitepaper.
> 
> By the way, why current tb explicitly disables ${MAKE_JOBS}?  It seems logical 
> to me if tb admin could redefine this, defaulting (oriented to dedicated tb) to  
> kern.smp.cpus.
> 
> 

This actually caused very strange problems with failed builds last time
it was used.  You're free to try it out again.

Joe

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