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A ZFS Scaling Adventure

The FreeBSD workers have been getting [slower]( (https://github.com/ocurrent/opam-repo-ci/issues/449): jobs that should take a few minutes are now timing out after 60 minutes. My first instinct was that ZFS was acting strangely.

23 Aug 2025

Marc Elvers

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Installation order for opam packages

Previously, I discussed the installation order for a simple directed acyclic graph without any cycles. However, opam packages include post dependencies. Rather than package A depending upon B where B would be installed first, post dependencies require X to be installed after Y. The post dependencies only occur in a small number of core OCaml packages.

31 Mar 2025

Marc Elvers

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