Poudriere very slow when building in i386 jails

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> > > Am I the only poudriere user that notices very long build times on an amd64 machine in i386 jails? This does not happen always, but frequently enough to be a nuisance.
> >
> > Can you say more about the rest of the setup ?
> >
> > Filesystem type ? Type of storage ? Memory size ? Base and jail system version ?
> 
> Filesystem is ZFS.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by "type of storage": can you make an example?

SSD or spinning drives ?

> I have 3.6 Gb of RAM and 2 Gb of swap.

Run top and check the state of ARC.

I think it needs much more RAM.

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