Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:15:13AM -0300, oren.al...@gmail.com wrote: >> For the last couple of days I have been following the pointyhat build >> statistics provided at >> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html > > Brave man :-) That's one I set up. > >> As seen on that page, the building process started on Dec 3rd but had >> not been completed yet. > > Apparently the build for www/p5-Gtk2-WebKit is now hanging on all buildenvs. > Pav already marked it so on amd64. > > It will continue to run until a reaper process kills it off (or one of > us portmgrs does it manually). I'd like to see the error log so I'm > going to let it run for now. The reaper process is IIRC 24 hours. > >> Why is there such a large difference between the build times on amd64 >> and i386? Are the i386 machines really that underpowered? > > Two data points: one, it looks like Pav having marked www/p5-Gtk2-WebKit > as broken had already been taken into account for the amd64 build, so it > didn't have that problem. And two, some of our i386 machines are indeed > underpowered. We've added several new, more modern, ones this year that > were donated to us: these are dual 2.4 or 2.8GHz machines, mostly with > 2G of RAM. (One of my background tasks is to try to characterize > performance on the nodes with various setups; my intuition is that 4G > would allow us to raise throughput, but I need to make a 'use case' for > that before I go ask for funding.)
How much do you need? RAM isn't that expensive I think direct funding can be organized without all that overhead. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"