On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote:
> On 10 September 2017 at 12:00, Chris Tapp <opensou...@keylevel.com> wrote: > >> I have a similar spec, except I use an SSD for the build area and only >> 16GB RAM (I don’t see more than about 12GB used during a build) - a build >> from scratch (excluding download time) takes just under an hour. >> > > The thing to remember with SSDs is that builds can write *a lot* of data > and this can destroy SSDs faster than you'd like. > > Personally I find lots of RAM more cost effective. If you've got a > moderate amount then a slow commit time in fstab lets the kernel batch > writes wisely. If you've got plenty of RAM (my machine has 64GB) then a > good sized tmpfs (32GB here) mounted at TMPDIR (the local.conf setting, not > /tmp) in with rm_work means you literally have no I/O latency. To persist > files either copy them out or for example set DEPLOY_DIR to a real disk. > > Ross > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > Thanks, I'll consider this too. A lot of techincal stuff to learn here on this mailing list :) Regards, Usman
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