Slow build system

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jun 14 14:24:58 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:18 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I seem to recall someone saying a while back that the build system was
> also used for hosting one of the mirrors or something, making it slow
> around the time of a release. I had a build that should have finished
> without trouble fail yesterday due to a timeout (and it was already
> complete on 2 of 3 archs). If the system is going to be hammered like
> this for a few days (or more) with the new release, would it be possible
> to increase the timeout so that scarce CPU cycles don't go to waste like
> this?
> 

the buildsystem is not used to host a mirror. The buildsystem gets its
copy of the release from a known mirror. So populating the chroots takes
longer.

-sv





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