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Subject: Re: running poudriere with 8 builders
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Hi!

> During this time (00:09:20 - 00:33:47) the CPUs are idling and top
> shows 8x 'cpdup' (I do not see any man page for this, what proc is
> this?).
> 
> The overall throughput now is around 70 ports per hour. And top shows
> little CPU usage and a lot of pkg-static processes, perhaps for
> unpacking dependency packages. 
> 
> Any hints about how to improve the setup?

Did you use ZFS as file system ?

SSD instead of spinning disks ?

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