Something interesting I noticed while doing an initial bulk pkgsrc build on df.v12.su:
Build start: 2009-02-13 04:26 Build end: 2009-02-20 18:46 This machine has 4 2.4G cpus, but I think this is the same time I'd get on single-CPU pkgbox under good circumstances. My handwaving guess is that either the pbulk process combined with the BGL is I/O bound, not CPU bound. I recall Joerg had mentioned using VMWare to put multiple hosts on a single machine, and then using pbulk's internal distributed build method to spread work between those hosts; that may be possible on this system if/when Qemu works on DragonFly? Other ideas welcome; I'd like to use bulk pkgsrc builds as a sort of performance profile, plus anything that makes them faster is good.
