Russell Currey <rus...@russell.cc> writes: > When running tox on a VM with presumably pretty busy spinning disks, > using eatmydata with the database took running one configuration's test > suite from (no exaggeration) 20 minutes down to 60 seconds.
As the author and been-attempting-to-no-longer-be-maintainer-of eatmydata, this 20x improvement in test execution time doesn't really surprise me. It turns out that properly flushing things to disk is *really* expensive. -- Stewart Smith OPAL Architect, IBM. _______________________________________________ Patchwork mailing list Patchwork@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/patchwork
