From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] speeding up builds
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:15:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw51NC2y3_=ayM-RO0r4ErOUpgw8QM1DfuFunuWFC8pWvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I finally acquired a machine with 32GB of ram, an intel 3930k (6
cores), and an SSD.
I put the build_dir, /tmp and /var/tmp on ramdisks, and...
This cut a complete cerowrt build (including toolchain) down from >
3.5 hrs down to under 45 minutes.
Without the toolchain rebuild, but after a make clean (to rebuild the
packages and kernel), it's about 28 minutes.
I can see that it is possible to parallelize things more to maybe chop
another 30% of of things...
...but I'm glad to have 3 hrs of my life back, per build.
I wanted to figure out to what extent modern hardware would enhance
the existing buildbot system.
Now I know...
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Dave Täht
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next reply other threads:[~2012-04-30 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-30 0:15 Dave Taht [this message]
2012-04-30 1:42 ` Outback Dingo
2012-04-30 1:59 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 2:24 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 2:42 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 2:52 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 15:14 ` [Cerowrt-devel] Pointers on build setup? dpreed
2012-04-30 15:50 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 16:50 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 23:32 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2012-04-30 23:46 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-30 19:15 ` dpreed
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