On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gna.org> wrote: > So right now, I'm thinking about: > - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 cores (32 threads) > - Hard drives: 500GB, 1 TB or 2 TB (ideally with RAID if it can speed up the > builds) > - RAM: i don't really know, maybe 8 or 16 GB or more?
At least 16GB of RAM for the vast amount of disk cache that will give you. 32GB or more will mean you can easily put the TMPDIR or WORKDIR into a tmpfs (there's been discussion about this a few weeks ago). I've 16GB of RAM and a 8GB tmpfs with rm_work was sufficient for WORKDIR which gave a 10% speedup (and massive reduction on disk wear). Others have machines with 64GB RAM and use it for all of TMPDIR, at which point you'll be almost entirely CPU-bound. Ross _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
