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On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 09:48:07 John Covici wrote: |
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> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:25:58 -0500, |
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> Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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> > > IMO over-committing CPU isn't actually THAT bad. The CPU obviously |
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> > > gets divided n ways, but that's as far as it goes. There isn't that |
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> > > much overhead switching between VMs (though there certainly is some). |
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> > [...] |
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> > Thanks for the fuller picture and putting in the time to write it. |
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> On my i7 machine with 16g of ram, webkit-gtk has got to take 4/5 hours |
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> to compile. This is using an ssd. |
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That vindicates my choice of an NVMe SSD for this box, which is also an i7 but |
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with 32GB. Genlop shows it takes between 23 and 50 minutes here, depending on |
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what else I'm doing I suppose. What a difference a direct connection makes! |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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