On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:34:12AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > For now, *please*, *please*, *please*, do not add DPB_PROPERTIES=parallel > blindly to any port that seems to "like" it. There's still a small cost > to this: the tree will run with two many processes for a bit of time, > and some ports that "look" parallel safe are not, if you throw enough cores > at them.
Another thing I forgot to say: all this is highly experimental for now. I've committed the various pieces so that people concerned (that's a few porters that manage build clusters) can play with it, work on it, give me feedback. All of this may change. Heck, if it doesn't pan out, it might even get scratched. This is more of a heads-up to let you know in greater detail what is going on.
