Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:50:02 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: And Here I Thought buildworld/makeworld Was IO Bound Message-ID: <52FA70DA.7050601@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1%2BYsSuDS%2BUVKBtRTFR0XXmzpRzDi9b7O5wP2zwwc61mbw@mail.gmail.com> References: <52F84AF8.8050007@tundraware.com> <CAFHbX1JcWpW1UOuLFj0PkSBGBsmbKfot1FN8QreHYD-M84E=4Q@mail.gmail.com> <52F96B27.4090509@tundraware.com> <CAFHbX1%2BYsSuDS%2BUVKBtRTFR0XXmzpRzDi9b7O5wP2zwwc61mbw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/11/2014 04:04 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: >> On 02/10/2014 09:55 AM, Tom Evans wrote: >>> >>> Does poudriere buildworld on tmpfs if you have USE_TMPFS=all? That >>> might give you an absolute baseline. >> >> >> I'm not exactly sure what you're suggesting here. I think of >> poudriere as a way to build ports trees rapidly. Can it >> also be used to compile arbitrary (non ports) programs? > > Poudriere starts by installing a base jail on which it compiles > packages. If you ask it nicely, it will do so by checking out/updating > a tree from SVN and compiling it. I was wondering if you had set > USE_TMPFS=all, whether it would do that build on tmpfs. > As an aside here, having nothing to do with poudriere, does buildworld/kernel even use /tmp or otherwise access tmpfs? It seems to produce temporary output somewhere deep in /usr/obj. Is there a way to get it to use tmpfs or write it's output to /tmp instead? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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