[pypy-dev] FreeBSD 9.2 buildslave: first run

[Tobias Oberstein]

Hi David,

the FreeBSD buildslave now has appropriate env flags (MAKEFLAGS=-j8) which seems to solve the issue without patching ..

/Tobias


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: David Naylor [mailto:naylor.b.david at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 16. Dezember 2013 10:41
> An: Maciej Fijalkowski
> Cc: Tobias Oberstein; pypy-dev at python.org
> Betreff: Re: [pypy-dev] FreeBSD 9.2 buildslave: first run
> 
> On Sunday, 17 November 2013 19:09:00 Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tobias Oberstein
> >
> > <tobias.oberstein at tavendo.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > the new FreeBSD buildslave has run the first time:
> > >
> > > http://buildbot.pypy.org/builders/pypy-c-jit-freebsd-9-x86-64/builds
> > > /6
> > >
> > > PyPy was built successfully, but there are a couple of issues:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1637
> > > https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1638
> > > https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1639
> > >
> > > I'll address those.
> > >
> > > There is another issue that bugs me .. look at the built times:
> > >
> > > [Timer] Timings:
> > > [Timer] annotate                       ---  576.0 s
> > > [Timer] rtype_lltype                   --- 1323.7 s
> > > [Timer] pyjitpl_lltype                 --- 1098.6 s
> > > [Timer] backendopt_lltype              ---  314.2 s
> > > [Timer] stackcheckinsertion_lltype     ---  161.5 s
> > > [Timer] database_c                     ---  451.3 s
> > > [Timer] source_c                       ---  668.5 s
> > > [Timer] compile_c                      --- 2403.8 s
> > > [Timer] ===========================================
> > > [Timer] Total:                         --- 6997.6 s
> > >
> > > and compare with "Linux 64 on allegro64":
> > >
> > > [Timer] Timings:
> > > [Timer] annotate                       ---  641.5 s
> > > [Timer] rtype_lltype                   --- 1528.5 s
> > > [Timer] pyjitpl_lltype                 ---  938.7 s
> > > [Timer] backendopt_lltype              ---  242.2 s
> > > [Timer] stackcheckinsertion_lltype     ---  206.8 s
> > > [Timer] database_c                     ---  325.3 s
> > > [Timer] source_c                       ---  357.7 s
> > > [Timer] compile_c                      ---  246.4 s
> > > [Timer] ===========================================
> > > [Timer] Total:                         --- 4487.1 s
> > >
> > > *****
> > >
> > > Why the heck does "compile_c" take 10x the time on FreeBSD?
> > >
> > > Note that FreeBSD builder uses Clang .. could that be a reason?
> > >
> > > Any hints on that are welcome!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Tobias
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > I would guess because we can't guess the number of processors we don't
> > parallelize the build correctly.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please see attached for a patch that fixes this.  It should be trivial to add
> support for the other bsd systems, however I am not sure where the other
> bsds put their sysctl.
> 
> Tobias: can you please confirm if this patch works (please make sure there is
> no MAKEFLAGS specified).  The Ports Collection invokes the Makefile directly
> so never needed this.
> 
> Regards