Re: How much parallelism can be teased out of the NetBSD build process?

[Ron Chen <ron_chen_123%yahoo.com@localhost>]

FreeBSD is planning to use SGE to build packages:

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2004-feb-2004.html#FreeBSD-Package-Grid

 -Ron

--- "Erik E. Fair" <fair%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> make(1) is a pretty good dataflow analysis tool, if
> it is given 
> enough information.
> 
> If one were building a cluster to do NetBSD builds,
> how big can it 
> get before you have idled processors from
> insufficient work? Or, put 
> another way, how much parallelism can we tease out
> of the NetBSD and 
> pkgsrc build systems?
> 
>       pondering out loud,
> 
>       Erik <fair%netbsd.org@localhost>


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