7 Monitoring the Build

The scripts/stats ${branch} command counts the number of packages currently built.

Running cat /var/portbuild/*/loads/* shows the client loads and number of concurrent builds in progress.

Running tail -f ${arch}/${branch}/build.log shows the overall build progress.

If a build is failing, and it is not immediately obvious from the port build log as to why, you can preserve the WRKDIR for further analysis. To do this, touch a file called .keep in the port's directory. The next time the cluster tries to build this port, it will tar, compress, and copy the WRKDIR to ${arch}/${branch}/wrkdirs.

Keep an eye on df(1) output. If the /var/portbuild file system becomes full then Bad Things™ happen.