Subject: Re: How much parallelism can be teased out of the NetBSD build process?
To: None <tech-cluster@netbsd.org>
From: Ron Chen <ron_chen_123@yahoo.com>
List: tech-cluster
Date: 03/22/2004 08:28:34
FreeBSD is planning to use SGE to build packages:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2004-feb-2004.html#FreeBSD-Package-Grid
-Ron
--- "Erik E. Fair" <fair@netbsd.org> wrote:
> make(1) is a pretty good dataflow analysis tool, if
> it is given
> enough information.
>
> If one were building a cluster to do NetBSD builds,
> how big can it
> get before you have idled processors from
> insufficient work? Or, put
> another way, how much parallelism can we tease out
> of the NetBSD and
> pkgsrc build systems?
>
> pondering out loud,
>
> Erik <fair@netbsd.org>
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