Re: I'm a new contributor and would like advice

2024-08-13 Thread Hazel Cooney
Ok, I'll try to reproduce with as few packages as I can. I'm working on a script to test performance of only the "building profile" stage with various numbers of packages. I use an relatively new NVME SSD from Samsung. I got it a couple years ago. I'll have to check back on its read/write performan

Re: I'm a new contributor and would like advice

2024-08-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Hazel, Hazel Cooney skribis: > before finishing. It said it was "building profile with (some number) > packages", and it took at least 2 minutes on that stage only no > matter the size of the package. This is surprisingly long, indeed. Do you use an SSD or a rotating disk? As Felix mentio

Re: I'm a new contributor and would like advice

2024-08-05 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Evan, On Wed, Jul 31 2024, Hazel Cooney wrote: > It should not take 2 minutes using 100% of 12 threads just to create > some files. I'm also a newbie and wish I had equipment like yours! Profiles might be composed of symbolic links, which can take time to resolve on rotating disks, if you ha