Re: [yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-25 Thread Elvis Dowson
Hi Chris, On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Chris Tapp wrote: > On 23 Oct 2012, at 19:45, Elvis Dowson wrote: > >> I noticed that between commits >> >> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=0260bb5c6978839c068007fcff2f704937805faf >> >> and >> >> http://gi

Re: [yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-23 Thread Ross Burton
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 22:37, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > > My machine has 16G of RAM, and after a good build will have 12G of "cache" > > (according to /proc), but the disk activity light was frantic. I can only > > imagine it would be more frantic with less RAM to act as an over-

Re: [yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-23 Thread McClintock Matthew-B29882
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 22:19, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Elvis Dowson > (mailto:elvis.dow...@gmail.com)> wrote: >> > The only curious thing that I've noticed is that I don't see a large >> > pe

Re: [yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-23 Thread Ross Burton
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 22:19, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Elvis Dowson (mailto:elvis.dow...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > The only curious thing that I've noticed is that I don't see a large > > performance improvement using a standard 3TB Seagate Barracud

Re: [yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-23 Thread McClintock Matthew-B29882
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote: > The only curious thing that I've noticed is that I don't see a large > performance improvement using a standard 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM HDD, > and the two Intel Series 330 SSDs in a striped RAID0 configuration. The read > (600MB/s) /

Re: [yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-23 Thread Chris Tapp
On 23 Oct 2012, at 19:45, Elvis Dowson wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that between commits > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=0260bb5c6978839c068007fcff2f704937805faf > > and > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a3d5e9e6b7729319c518dcaf25bbe0

[yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

2012-10-23 Thread Elvis Dowson
Hi, I noticed that between commits http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=0260bb5c6978839c068007fcff2f704937805faf and http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a3d5e9e6b7729319c518dcaf25bbe0643bfb25db the build time has improved by around 7 minutes fo