On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:

> Mark E. Perkins wrote:
>> Some years back, I did some informal benchmarking of this.  Among other
>> things, I did a complete system build (1.5.3, I think) using local (SCSI) 
>> and
>> NFS-mounted from a Q605 (with a full 68040 installed).  I can't put my 
>> hands
>> on the notes I made, but the NFS-mounted /usr/src was definitely faster. 
>> My
>> best recollection is that it was about 30% improvement (in the ballpark of 
>> 1
>> day vs. 1.5 days, but that's a pretty fuzzy memory on the actual times; I 
>> tend
>> to remember the percentages more accurately).
>
> Maybe keeping a single copy of pkgsrc for all my machines to build from makes 
> some sense, then.  (I have a mostly-unused 9 GB drive in a mostly-unused SGI 
> box; having a reason to keep it turned on would be great.)  I'll have to look 
> into how to keep output files organized when doing that, though.  I assume 
> the framework supports this somehow - work/<platform> subdirs maybe?

in your /etc/mk.conf set:

 	WRKOBJDIR?=/var/obj/pkg

(or wherever)

If you have plenty of memory you may also want to speed things up:

 	CFLAGS+=-pipe

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