[Debichem-devel] Bug#851785: Bug#851785: bagel: re-enable parallel builds

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Thu May 10 07:06:30 BST 2018


On 08/05/18 09:47, Michael Banck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:06:05AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:19:21 +0100 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Source: bagel
>>> Version: 0.0~git20170109-1
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I see in the changelog that you disabled parallel builds for some
>>> buildds but it seems to be completely disabled now. It'd be nice
>>> to get it enabled again, as it could reduce the build time significantly,
>>> e.g. on mips64el it's taking 35h on some buildds now, when it used to build
>>> on 9h.
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>> bagel is only building on 64 bit architectures these days, which should have
>> enough RAM for parallel builds. Please enable it to avoid keeping some buildds
>> busy for almost 2 days.
> 
> OK, but note that it does take an awful lot of RAM for some files to
> compile, I used to patch out the worest but this is no longer the case.
> 
> So I'm a bit afraid for the buildds, but I've uploaded it now.

Thanks! It worked, significantly reducing the build time: e.g. on mips64el it
went from ~34 to 9 hours.

It only failed on sparc64, which is not a release architecture. I have given it
back, let's see if it's better now.

Emilio



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