I just discovered the option and that's why I asked :) A local build of the "jclouds" repo without and with it shows the time you can save (this is in a machine with 4 cores):
$ mvn clean install Total time: 08:07 min $ mvn clean install -T1C Total time: 03:51 min (Wall Clock) It takes half the time. Don't know if with the instances we have we'll see some improvement, but perhaps is worth trying. It would be cool to reduce the PR build time. On 28 April 2014 17:00, Andrew Phillips <aphill...@qrmedia.com> wrote: >> Has someone tried to play with the "-T" maven parameter when building >> jclouds? >> Do you know which kind of instances do we have in Dev@cloud, and if we >> could set that parameter? > > > I recall having tried it out a while back, only to discover that some of the > plugins we use were not compatible with parallel builds at the time. But > that may have changed. > > Our DEV@cloud builds are on micro images normally, I think (although we're > of course not really supposed to know ;-)), but may also be running on LXCs. > It shouldn't *hurt* to set the option, though - it just may not have any > effect..? > > ap
