Various people have asked me for more details on our bulk build setup, now that it is able to perform a full pkgsrc bulk build from scratch (14,000+ packages) in 4.5 hours. I've written a post which details some of these bits and the recent performance work I've been doing, it's here: http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/building-packages-at-scale.html I'm happy to answer any questions if you want me to go into more detail about any aspects of our setup. -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com