making ports on NFS fails sometimes ?

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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:55:19 +0100
Kurt Jaeger wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm running a port build for "my" preferred ports list (approx. 1500).
> 
> The /usr/ports comes via NFS from an ZFS server.
> 
> Some of the port builds fail because of that. Is this well-known ?
> Should I move back to a local disk ?

You might try setting WRKDIRPREFIX to a local directory. If you have
sufficient ram or swap, you can use tmpfs.