On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 07:58:19AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > starting to think about a new laptop that will, among other things, > do lots of OE/YP builds, and i'll start with this as the basis for a > few questions about hard drives: > > https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/gaming-laptops/g15-ryzen-edition-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5515-laptop/ng155515_sb_ps25e > > while an SSD would be delightful, i'm concerned about how doing > frequent 40-50G builds would wear out an SSD. so i was considering > looking for something with a fast regular HD for the actual build > directories, but room to put in an M.2 NVMe that would hold fairly > static content, like the OS itself, all the layers, a local source > mirror and so on. > > am i overthinking this? anyone have a laptop setup that is smokin' > fast (yeah, 8 core AMD ryzen :-),
When using a laptop with only 16 GB RAM to build with 8 or 16 threads, on what drive will the heavily used large swap partition be? gcc loves to use > 2 GB RAM for non-trivial C++ code, with 16 threads I'd recommend 64 GB RAM. > and a dual drive layout that seems > to work well with lots and lots of OE builds? Ask for the specs of the SSD and do the math. E.g. 150 TBW / 50 GB/build = 3000 builds If you are building from scratch so often that the resulting number is a worry, I'd rather buy 128 GB RAM and use a tmpfs instead of creating a spinning rust bottleneck. > rday cu Adrian
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