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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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