Building on top of Qemu with dpb on my 2013 Macbook Pro with SSD doesn’t seem fantastic at the moment either. The single core-ness on OpenBSD might be a little to blame but the system usage is ~50% while building. Might be the virtio drivers?
I’ll see about snapshotting the filesystem 8x and running a few more VMs with one acting as an NFS server. On Jun 15, 2015, at 9:59 PM, andrew fabbro <and...@fabbro.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Philip Cheney <phi...@packwidth.net> wrote: > >> So far, the only issue I've had building anything on arm is the speed >> difference. The limited hardware really does take its toll: limited RAM, >> extremely slow IO, heat issues with continuous high load on fanless >> systems. Building the entire ports tree in one go is not representative of >> most of this platform's use-cases, though. >> > > In the last 72 hours, I've built 81 packages for 5.7, compiling pretty much > continuously on my Beagle Bone Black. I haven't seen any crashes, errors, > or problems (other than a couple of my own making/learning opportunities). > But yes, it's very slow - python took something like 20 hours to build > using the internal flash. > > But hey, that's why we have batch features in the shell. > > I wonder if this will be like painting the Golden Gate Bridge - if you > start with the 5.7 release, by the time all the packages are built, 5.8 > will be out :-)
