> On 11 Sep 2017, at 09:24, Usman Haider <usmanhaide...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com > <mailto:ross.bur...@intel.com>> wrote: > On 10 September 2017 at 12:00, Chris Tapp <opensou...@keylevel.com > <mailto:opensou...@keylevel.com>> wrote: > I have a similar spec, except I use an SSD for the build area and only 16GB > RAM (I don’t see more than about 12GB used during a build) - a build from > scratch (excluding download time) takes just under an hour. > > The thing to remember with SSDs is that builds can write *a lot* of data and > this can destroy SSDs faster than you'd like. > > Personally I find lots of RAM more cost effective. If you've got a moderate > amount then a slow commit time in fstab lets the kernel batch writes wisely. > If you've got plenty of RAM (my machine has 64GB) then a good sized tmpfs > (32GB here) mounted at TMPDIR (the local.conf setting, not /tmp) in with > rm_work means you literally have no I/O latency. To persist files either > copy them out or for example set DEPLOY_DIR to a real disk. > > Ross > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> > > > > Thanks, > > I'll consider this too. A lot of techincal stuff to learn here on this > mailing list :)
One thing you’ll find here is a lot of very knowledgable people who go out of their way to help as much as possible - got me going from a cold start very, very quickly :-) A really good example of an excellent opensource project / community. > Regards, > Usman -- Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com www.keylevel.com ---- You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap!
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