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Date:      Sun, 9 Jan 2011 00:10:47 +0100
From:      Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17
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Hello Pav,

Den 08/01/2011 kl. 20.34 skrev Pav Lucistnik:

> Package cluster is quite clever, akshully, and since this is OT here,
> just terse comments

Sorry, replied to a bad message... redirecting to current@

>>> 1. adding SSD disks
>=20
> irrelevant because of bullet 2.
>=20
>>> 2. source and destination directories on md devices
>=20
> already done, swap backed md devices are used
>=20
>>> 3. huge ccache cache
>>> 4. dist-cc
>=20
> these tend to have their own issues
>=20
>>> 5. some heuristics on which ports could be skipped because =
dependencies haven't changed since last run
>=20
> this is also already done, we call it "incremental builds"
>=20
>>> 6. tuning the host system for this specific task
>=20
> empty words

I was pretty sure I couldn't improve anything with 5 minutes of =
thinking. I'm glad the most obvious things have already been done, and =
I'm sure you and others have put a lot of effort into this. My question =
was more what, if anything, can be done to speed up the cluster.

Also, how long does it take to complete an exp-run on the cluster?

Thanks,
Erik=

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