Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > 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.
Just to clarify, on the quad core, you're running 4 bulk build slaves, not running one slave which builds with MAKE_JOBS=4? The 20h are certainly very impressive. cheers simon
