On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:07 PM, diffusae punasipuli@t-online.de wrote:
I needed the buildworld to create a jail with ezjail.
If you break some of these down all they do is lay down an installworld in DESTDIR and run jail on it. Too heavy for some who tar up / and /usr and lay them down instead. Or bsdinstall into the same dir.
It's better to use cross-compiling.
For sure.
To build a custom kernel isn't only faster, it also saves energy. On a Linux box I can power a RPI-B with around 400 mA. With the snapshot kernel it needs definitely more. If I strip out all unneeded components from the kernel config, it should use the same amperage.
If you're tracking power like this, you could post your 'same use case' power comparisons to the freebsd-arm list, people there would likely be interested.
Killing off all but init ttys sshd tor dns ntp would help too.