Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the biggest bottleneck when compiling the ports tree?
CPU. Disk is not a big contributor, unless you are building on something really slow like a laptop disk. > Would compiling ports actually use four processors? Not by default, no. However, Nikolay's distributed package builder (infrastructure/build/dpb) can parallelize a bulk build over several CPUs and machines. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]