Poudriere Timeout

[Torsten Zuehlsdorff]

Hi,

>>>> Yes, i have. I've solved this problem by moving the build-jails of
>>>> poudriere to an memory disk. This make poudriere no longer io-bund and
>>>> incredibly fast. And solve this issue ;)
>
>>> How did you do this ? I want to try this myself 8-}
>
>> I've hacked poudriere to run within a jail.
>
> Aha, the .m mountpoint. My test host has 32 GB, so 20 GB should not be
> a problem.
>
> Testport: www/p5-Selenium-Remote-Driver on 10.1-amd64, 9.3-amd64 and 8.4-i386.
>
> Results:
>
> old: 00:05:43
> new: 00:05:11

I suppose the fetch has to be done?

> old: 00:01:56
> new: 00:00:12
>
> old: 00:02:11
> new: 00:00:14
>
> Nice!

You are welcome :) There are a bunch of speed-optimizations possible for 
poudriere, but this will defeat its general purpose. Using a memory disk 
is the easiest and fastest way for a big improvement.

Greetings,
Torsten