Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-17 Thread lists
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:45:43 -0500 Andre Smagin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:15:29 + > Tati Chevron wrote: > > > Really, have a look at the dependencies for ImageMagick, and ask yourself > > who really uses djvu, for example. Removing it and ghostscript reduces > > the dependencies from

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-17 Thread Tati Chevron
[ massive dependency list snipped... ] Thank you!!! This hits the nail on the head. One of the twenty four things I currently want is editors/emacs,gtk2. That wants ImageMagick... I stopped the dpb build this morning at I=417 ports. As far as I'm concerned that's off the chain. I'm trying to deci

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Andre Smagin
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:15:29 + Tati Chevron wrote: > Really, have a look at the dependencies for ImageMagick, and ask yourself > who really uses djvu, for example. Removing it and ghostscript reduces > the dependencies from: Plenty of people read books in djvu format and use ImageMagick to

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:15:29PM +, Tati Chevron wrote: > >Or both. Drop VMWare on the floor NOW, if you need virtualisation use > >generic QEMU/KVM in any recent Linux distribution of your choice and > >plan to wipe it clean after you're done fiddling with it. Yes, really > >seriously remo

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:00:10PM -0500, Michael McConville wrote: Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron wrote: > Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes > with 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems to make more > difference than anything

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:43:43PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron wrote: Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes with 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems to make more difference than anything else, because you can set the w

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
Or both. Drop VMWare on the floor NOW, if you need virtualisation use generic QEMU/KVM in any recent Linux distribution of your choice and plan to wipe it clean after you're done fiddling with it. Yes, really seriously remove the virtualisation for a build machine, go bare metal. Try without hyp

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Michael McConville
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron wrote: > > > Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes > > with 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems to make more > > difference than anything else, because you can set the work > > directory to a ramdis

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2015-12-16, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > I'm trying to dpb to maintain a small set of packages for a handfull > of OpenBSD boxes that I run. These boxes will all be single purpose > servers of some type or another. Many of them will run with limited > disk space and memory on Soekris hardw

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron wrote: > Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes with > 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems to make more difference > than anything else, because you can set the work directory to a ramdisk, > and do the entire build without touch

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread lists
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:58:48 + Tati Chevron wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:01:51PM -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > >I'm trying to dpb to maintain a small set of packages for a handfull > >of OpenBSD boxes that I run. These boxes will all be single purpose > >servers of some type

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:01:51PM -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: I'm trying to dpb to maintain a small set of packages for a handfull of OpenBSD boxes that I run. These boxes will all be single purpose servers of some type or another. Many of them will run with limited disk space and memo