Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/20/10 10:48 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: [...] The 8.x reference machine was created by cloning the 7.x reference machine (the OS "drive" is a RAID 1; I broke the mirror and physically booted the (soon-to-be) 8.x machine from a single drive from the 7.x mirror, changed the hostname& IP ad

Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-20 Thread David Wolfskill
At work, my focus is on facilitating & improving the productivity of the developers. Much of the time they spend is in waiting for a build to complete -- thus, something that reduces the time thus spent is likely to be beneficial (all other things being approximately equal), while something that i