Re: Huge build times increase after updating from 14.3 to 14.4

From: Philip Paeps <philip_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:18:24 UTC
On 2026-03-13 21:53:48 (+0800), Olivier Certner wrote:
> You are likely hitting a known problem, see thread "performance 
> regressions in 15.0".  E.g., just picked one mail saying what I also 
> personally think about it:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-December/009623.html
> (arguably, some RAM factories have burnt out for retail consumers 
> since then...)
>
> AFAIK, the default was never switched back, but if you're building 
> from source, a new knob was added to recover the previous behavior, 
> see:
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=8d5a11cd0137d3ad

Does this affect the package builders?  Does that build fix go in the 
host or in the build jails?

Thanks.

Philip [hat: cluster babysitter]