Re: Huge build times increase after updating from 14.3 to 14.4

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM Philip Paeps <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2026-03-16 19:18:45 (+0800), Mark Millard wrote:
> > On 3/15/26 21:18, Philip Paeps wrote:
> >> On 2026-03-13 21:53:48 (+0800), Olivier Certner wrote:
> >>> You are likely hitting a known problem, see thread "performance
> >>> regressions in 15.0".  E.g., just picked one mail saying what I
> >>> also
> >>> personally think about it:
> >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-
> >>> December/009623.html
> >>> (arguably, some RAM factories have burnt out for retail consumers
> >>> since then...)
> >>>
> >>> AFAIK, the default was never switched back, but if you're building
> >>> from source, a new knob was added to recover the previous behavior,
> >>> see:
> >>> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=8d5a11cd0137d3ad
> >>
> >> Does this affect the package builders?
> >
> > Yes for the 15.* jails, the main jails [so: 16.0], and the future
> > 14.4+
> > jails.
> >
> > (The 13.5 jails and the 14.3 jails do not have the problem.)
> >
> >> Does that build fix go in the
> >> host or in the build jails?
> >
> > What primarily matters is how the world put in the build-jail was
> > built.
>
> pkgmgr controls the build jails.  I don't think they use clusteradm
> images in the jails.  We only supply the host operating system.

We use default releases  (or security updates of default releases)

Antoine