[PKGNG] use more than one threads?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 1 08:05:55 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:14:35AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 30/01/2013 09:00, Alex Keda wrote:
> > "man xz" say about
> >> -T threads, --threads=threads
> > 
> > but, when work
> >> pkg create -a
> > 
> > it use only one:
> >>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME WCPU COMMAND
> >> 48672 root        1 103    0   216M   117M CPU2    2  20:39 99.37% pkg
> > create -a
> > 
> > how I can use more than one CPU?
> 
> pkgng doesn't call the xz executable for compressing packages; instead
> it uses library code via libarchive.  So making it compress created
> packages is a bit more involved than just tweaking a command-line somewhere.
> 
> However, yes, this would be a desirable behaviour.  If you could open an
> issue at Github, that would be great.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> PS.  There's a brand-new freebsd-pkg@ mailing list which I'd encourage
> people to use for this sort of question.

libarchive doesn't support yet threading as soon as libarchive supports it pkgng
will automatically gain it.

regards,
Bapt
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