On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:47:17PM -0500, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > 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?
The overhead of using VMware on Linux was in the area of 50%. On a 4 core machine, this made the build overall faster than running native. At the time (smaller pkgsrc tree), the full build needed around 4 days on a Dual Dual Core with 2GHz. For comparision, a box I am currently borrowing for stress testing is doing a full bulk build in 20h (Intel Dual Quadcore), under NetBSD 5.0RC2, including idle time due to running out of jobs. Joerg
