Well, one thing I've noticed on pkgbox is that there are very large swaths of time where the whole build process seems to just stop, getting stuck (or slowed down) on a single ftp line. For example:
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 17447 p1 ILs 0:00.01 -tcsh (tcsh) 17449 p1 IL 0:00.02 -su (csh) 17455 p1 IL 0:00.02 /bin/csh -i 17461 p1 IL+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/pkg_bulk/libexec/pbulk/build 17462 p1 IL+ 0:04.37 /usr/pkg_bulk/bin/pbulk-build -r /bulklog/meta/pbuild -v -b /usr/pkg_bulk/libexec/pbulk/pkg-build /bulklog/meta/presolve /bulklog/meta/success /bulklog/meta/error 67617 p1 IL+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/pkg_bulk/libexec/pbulk/pkg-build 67891 p1 IL+ 0:00.21 /usr/pkg/bin/bmake checksum BATCH=1 DEPENDS_TARGET=/nonexistent WRKLOG=/bulklog/mailsync-5.2.1nb2/work.log 68028 p1 IL+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c set -e;^I^I^I^I unsorted_sites="http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/";^I^I^I sites=" $unsorted_sites ftp:/! /ftp.fi.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/ http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/";^I^I cd /distfiles &&^I^I^I /usr/bin/env CHECKSUM=/usr/bin/env\\ DIGEST=/usr/pkg/bin/digest\\ CAT=/bin/cat\\^I\\^I\\ ECHO=echo\\ SED=/usr/bin/sed\\^I\\^I\\^I\\ TEST=test\\^I\\^I\\^I\\^I\\^I\\ /bin/sh\\ /usr/pkgsrc/mk/checksum/checksum^I^I^I CP=/bin/cp^I^I^I^I ECHO=echo^I^I^I^I FETCH_CMD=/usr/bin/ftp^I^I^I FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=\\ ^I FETCH_AFTER_ARGS=^I^I FETCH_RESUME_ARGS=-R^I FETCH_OUTPUT_ARGS=-o^I MKDIR=/bin/mkdir MV=/bin/mv^I^I TEST=test TOUCH=/usr/bin/touch^I WC=/usr/bin/wc^I^I^I^I /bin/sh /usr/pkgsrc/mk/fetch/fetch -c -f /usr/pkgsrc/mail/mailsync/distinfo mailsync_5.2.1.orig.tar.gz $sites 68029 p1 IL+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/pkgsrc/mk/fetch/fetch http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/ ftp://ftp.fi.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/d! istfiles/ http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ 68030 p1 IL+ 0:00.00 /usr/bin/ftp http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailsync/mailsync_5.2.1.orig.tar.gz It has been stuck on fetching mailsync for probably an hour. That can't be good for the bulk build process. Justin, if you would like I do have several 700+ GB drives I can put into service for archiving the source tarballs, if that would help. If you can get rid of all or most of the remote ftp's it would speed up the build considerably. -Matt
