HOWTO reduce time of build ?

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 15/09/2010 19:53, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:27:39 -0400
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/15/10 8:40 AM, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> On 13/09/2010 21:45, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:13 -0400
>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/13/10 12:49 PM, Dan Angelescu wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have installed Tinderbox 3.3.
>>>>>> How can i reduce time for building packages ? I own a quad core
>>>>>> CPU. I must use more BUILDS ( jail + ports ) in parallel or exist
>>>>>> something like make -j ? Thanks for a great tool.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can use multiple parallel builds, but the -j does not work.
>>>>> You can also make use of tmpfs as backing store to decrease I/O
>>>>> time. Other users (like itetcu) may be able to offer some more
>>>>> insight.
>>>>
>>>> Yeh, we've been speaking a bit on private about what he wants to
>>>> do. Generally I/O is more important that CPU cycles; and building
>>>> in parallel with hit the I/O limits sooner that the CPU (YMMV).
>>>
>>> In my short experience I/O is not much of an issue when using async
>>> mounts, I can greatly increase throughput by running several tinderd
>>> instances.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I mustn't queue more than one job per build in this
>>> case.
>>>
>>> I was thinking of hacking tinderd to deal with locked builds more
>>> gracefully (i.e. not marking a queue entry failed) and fix the rc.d
>>> script to manage multiple tinderd instances.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure there are some examples of multi-tinterd floating
>> around the archives of this list.
> 
> The -devel port has it OPTIONaly.

Thank you all for keeping me from doing redundant work! It's not
like I don't have enough to do.

Regards

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