Hi, On 03/15/2011 04:22 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Vamsee Kanakala<vkanak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... I trigger the full test suite often enough on my workstation (4GB >> RAM, 160GB SATA, Ubuntu 10.10 x32) to make this a pain point. So my next >> iteration of upgrade I think, would be something like 8GB RAM, >> (compatible) SSD, Ubuntu 11.04 x64. > > On your current box run the test suite, data, DB out of a RAM disk > or tmpfs. A clean chroot test environment on a 4-8GB RAM disk will > work faster than any HDD/SSD. And much cheaper too. > > Sync the RAM disk state to HDD periodically so to ensure persistence. > Syncing can run in background to minimize performance impact. >
This is a very interesting approach. Going beyond periodic syncing, one of the things I've been planning to try out (although never got around doing) is to setup my dev environment (ie: app server including the db) on a ramdisk, which is disk backed up as part of a raid to a loopback mounted disk image :) ! ...this is something suggested by someone on IRC -- not sure of the practical benefits, but it sounds like a nice idea. I'll try to get it done this weekend. cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
