On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > I know OSX can be bad with I/O, but that seems unusually bad. IIRC gps > found that there's a relatively low limit to the number of files or > inodes that can be in cache, and a working tree of m-c alone is close > to the limit, so changing that configuration could help.
Is this the ken.maxvnodes sysctl setting? You can change it for your current session with: sudo sysctl kern.maxvnodes=$((512*1024)) You may want to experiment with higher settings depending on RAM, etc. You can change it permanently with: echo kern.maxvnodes=$((512*1024)) | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf (settings per https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/mac_build_instructions.md#Improving-performance-of) I've found on my (several years old) Mac that changing this setting does indeed make a significant performance difference. -Nathan _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
