Hi Bengt, Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> writes:
[...] >> Building Rust is mostly CPU dependent; I think fast single thread >> performance is key as not that much happen in parallel, IIRC. The 3900X >> is a 12 cores (24 logical) beast. >> > > Hm, just TRAN sata, no nvme, so it's going to be slow, but > what is the effect on what you timed? > > Is there an easy way to get a measure of how many GB went > through those SATA channels during what you timed? That > would give an idea of what faster phusical disk memory > access would do for you. If many people are waiting longer > that they like, maybe they would chip in to fund an upgrade, > to feed that 12(24)-core "beast" :-) I really doubt it's IO bound, from experience building it multiple times. But I don't have precise data; if you are interested in learning more, I encourage you to run something like 'guix build --check --no-grafts rust' or 'guix build --check --no-grafts -e '(@@ (gnu packages rust) rust-1.55) on your machine monitor the load via atop or similar tools. -- Thanks, Maxim
