On 03/15/10 06:34 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On 15/03/10 10:33 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: >> >> I've noticed that our sparc nightly builds are now >> taking about 9 hours, sometimes closer to 10. >> >> That's a massive increase - when we were generating >> SysV packages the sparc nightlies took about 6 hours.
This is much more dramatic increase than I would expect. >> I know there are some operations on sparc that python >> chokes on (memcmp, iirc), but is there anything else >> that might be having an impact here? Are you setting your PKG_ARCHIVE path to something nfs mounted on the gate machine? That was never great, but now it's terrible. The effort to build packages locally and then rsync the repos is well worth the build time performance improvement you'll see. >> The nightly log shows that the biggest chunk of time >> is spent in creating the IPS format packages, and I'd >> like to know what can be done to speed this up. > > > I should have mentioned above that I'm confident that > I can help to identify the source of the slowness of > that packaging operation, and that I really really do > want to help get data on this to the right people in > the pkg5 team. That almost went without saying. :) --Mark
