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On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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> > Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd |
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> > and would be much less wear on your flash besides. Of course, some |
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> > packages do take a while to build. I don't notice as much now that I |
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> > do most of my building from cron, but it can be painful when you have |
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> > dependency chains or soname changes. |
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> I hope this isn't more low grade density on my part but you do mean a |
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> tmpfs on the vm right? |
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I'm not Rich but I'm sure that's what he means. I have an SSD, and using |
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a tmpfs for building speeds up builds significantly - probably 10-15%. |
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This will mean that you'll need a significant amount of memory allocated |
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to the VM. Mounting a tmpfs defaults to half of the memory available to |
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the machine, which seems like a decent rule of thumb. If you give the VM |
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8GB of memory, the tmpfs will have 4GB of space. |
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