feature request: record build space used

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:23:08 +0300
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:14:37 -0400
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:03:05 -0400
> > > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:16 -0400
> > >>> Wesley Shields <wxs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>  On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:11:48PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:59 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > >>>>>> Yeh, an other one ;)
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> It would be very useful to me to have, for each port, stored
> > >>>>>> in the database the total size of the space it occupies,
> > >>>>>> together with base OS and dependencies, at build time. This
> > >>>>>> value should be updated, if bigger that current values, even
> > >>>>>> if the build fails.
> > >>>>> How would one know the size before the port builds?
> > >>>>> Dependencies are one thing, but we have no concept of size
> > >>>>> (even distfile size) before buildscript is called.
> > >>>> You can get a rough idea of it based upon the previous build?
> > >>>> Take the previous build and add on N% of space for growth?
> > >>> Exactly. While it might fail for a few ports that suddenly grow,
> > >>> it will work for 99%.
> > >>>
> > >>> From my educated guess:
> > >>> - for at least 50% of the ports tindy is spending more time
> > >>> untaring the jail that doing anything else. 
> > >>> - for 95% of the ports 2GB of RAM-based build space is more that
> > >>> enough;
> > >>>
> > >>> What I'd like is to be able to have everything in RAM for those
> > >>> 95% without maintaining an exceptions list by hand. For the
> > >>> current hardware QA Tindy is running on I should get at least
> > >>> 35% "speed" improvement for a full run. (The jail tarball is
> > >>> cached by the fs in memory for me).
> > >> So what would the size take into account?
> > > 
> > > If I use mdmfs or not. I don't have 8GB for OOo or some games.
> > 
> > No, I mean what would count towards a port's total size (e.g. 
> > dependencies, wrkdir, etc.)?
> 
> (Space use by tindy before starting the build) -
> (Space used by tindy after make package - package size)

(Space use by tindy before starting the build) -
(Space used by tindy after make package - packages size, new distfiles size, etc.)



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