> On 12. Apr 2017, at 11:37, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:43:14AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>> On 12. Apr 2017, at 05:43, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> pkg was eating 100% (of a single core) during that time, so it looks
>>> like it's actually busy (not waiting for I/O or something), but with
>>> what?  And can it be fixed?  LLVM ports are real PITA to (re)build,
>>> and while ccache helps to greatly reduce the build times, 3/4-hour
>>> package time still cripples it.
>> 
>> It's probably busy compressing the package. Try setting PKG_NOCOMPRESS=1
>> in /etc/make.conf (works ok when just building a package with make,
>> didn't test with poudriere[0]). When creating packages, the current
>> compression algorithm can't take advantage of multiple cores, so it's
>> kind of a bottleneck on modern machines.
> 
> That is my current best guest as well, but I could not confirm it because
> /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static is stripped by default and I could not see any
> function names when I attached gdb(1) to it.  Will rebuild pkg(8) shortly
> WITH_DEBUG to get more information.
> 
> Other alternative to PKG_NOCOMPRESS=1 could be PKGSUFFIX=.tbz (pkg-static
> create -f tbz ...), will play with that as well.

I don't think bzip will buy you much in terms of performance, supporting 
something like lz4 would be useful.

-m


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