Re: poudriere-devel: only 2 builder of 4 are running

On 25 Oct 2026, at 16:01, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> 
> El día domingo, octubre 25, 2026 a las 03:33:40p. m. +0100, Rainer Duffner escribió:
>> 
>>> Am 25.10.2026 um 14:03 schrieb Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Typically, a bunch of dependencies is waiting for llvm22 to finish, so only when that "logjam" is done, the rest will continue.
>>> 
>>> Furthermore, if it ends up building llvm22 and libreoffice simultaneously, it is likely that the host machine is going to be highly loaded, and maybe going into swap? Have you checked how much RAM and swap are used?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Over the years, RAM and swap requirements have risen significantly.
>> 
>> This is especially true when it happens that it's building two „large“ things at the same time. For me it was gcc14 and rust.
>> 
>> chromium is also notorious for requiring huge amounts of RAM and swap for linking.
> 
> After the successful end of llvm22, the other two builders picked up
> ports from the queue again. So, sorry for the noise.
> 
> A way to look into the queue to see what is waiting for actual running
> builds would be nice, though.

I usually enable the following setting in poudriere.conf:

HTML_TRACK_REMAINING=yes

The comment in poudriere.conf says that it might lead to a slight slowdown, but I find it very handy to see which ports are still pending.

-Dimitry