From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 23:10:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3001065670 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cederstrand.dk) Received: from csmtp3.one.com (csmtp3.one.com [91.198.169.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7716A8FC18 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from macfeast.lan (0x573b9942.cpe.ge-1-2-0-1101.ronqu1.customer.tele.dk [87.59.153.66]) by csmtp3.one.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27D124061D7; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-317-540951899; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: Erik Cederstrand In-Reply-To: <1294515254.16774.32.camel@hood.oook.cz> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 00:10:47 +0100 Message-Id: References: <4D277E4B.1030006@FreeBSD.org> <4D27840A.8020107@FreeBSD.org> <4D2785A7.7080106@FreeBSD.org> <4D27888F.4090703@FreeBSD.org> <467EA052-70AB-4C4C-B28E-9AD037C8BF14@FreeBSD.org> <4D27A3B8.4070401@FreeBSD.org> <82CF1B3F-B5F0-4B26-A6D1-8767370C1E0E@FreeBSD.org> <1294515254.16774.32.camel@hood.oook.cz> To: pav@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Current , Ivan Voras , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:10:51 -0000 --Apple-Mail-317-540951899 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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= --Apple-Mail-317-540951899--