reinstalling port - long pkg create run times

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

--- On Mon, 1/14/13, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:


>Subject: reinstalling port - long pkg create run times

>This seems too long:

 > PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU >COMMAND
 >5861 root         1 101    0   162M 32800K RUN     38:06 91.70% pkg


>96440  0  I+       0:00.15 |           `-- /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster ghost teTeX
 
>Are such long run times to be expected on this box
>on pkg create?

>Thanks

>Anton

I've a pentium 3 CPU that cannot build/install (usually) ruby19 and/or python27 due to either a long build time or a process running out of memory.  Does anyone know the CPU/Memory below which pkgng  may cease to create packages easily for some of the larger ports, it such should prove to be the case?  In which case, it should maybe be made into a FAQ before pkgng becomes the default for the current STABLE version/release...

J. Bouquet