FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

[Jeroen van der Ham]

Hi,

On 19 Jun 2013, at 18:52, Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> I guess the kernel-toolchain takes a long time to build…and from what I can see it does a clean before rebuilding also.
>> 
>> I'm doing the kernel-toolchain step only now and will report how long it took.

This seems to be it, that took roughly 2 hours to build. The actual kernel is probably pretty fast in building.

> Oh.  Without any parallelism (-j X), the build will take a really long time.  Even with only one core, you'll get a large speedup by performing a parallel build since many steps of the build are I/O bound.

Neither of the systems actually had parallelism defined, either as flag or in /etc/make.conf

Jeroen.