And Here I Thought buildworld/makeworld Was IO Bound

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2014 09:55 AM, Tom Evans wrote:
>>
>> Does poudriere buildworld on tmpfs if you have USE_TMPFS=all? That
>> might give you an absolute baseline.
>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're suggesting here. I think of
> poudriere as a way to build ports trees rapidly.  Can it
> also be used to compile arbitrary (non ports) programs?

Poudriere starts by installing a base jail on which it compiles
packages. If you ask it nicely, it will do so by checking out/updating
a tree from SVN and compiling it. I was wondering if you had set
USE_TMPFS=all, whether it would do that build on tmpfs.

Cheers

Tom