I've had been doing this on my laptop with only an SSD in hopes of saving write cycles, but eventually I gave up. Far too many situations where the battery died and I had to do a full rebuild.
I was thinking of writing some caching script that would save not-so-often changed objects to the SSD and copy them in to the ramdisk, but the effort is bigger than the possible return. Now I am back to building on my SSD. Its almost full and its not that old yet, so I guess the rule that you will buy a new one before it dies anyway is going to be true. Philipp On 7/19/14 7:48 AM, Benoit Jacob wrote: > I have a plain old mechanical disk too, but I have 32 G of RAM, enough that > disk access is not relevant to my (unified) build times. After a build, I > have 12 to 14 G of RAM used for cache, so I suppose that disk performance > is still relevant if you have <= 16 G of RAM, yeah. > > Benoit > > > 2014-07-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Geoff Lankow <ge...@darktrojan.net>: > >> Ah yes, I forgot to say. I am on Linux. I've found using RAM instead of my >> (mechanical) disk saves about 5 minutes of a roughly half-hour build. >> >> GL >> >> >> On 19/07/14 16:24, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> >>> What OS are we talking about? >>> >>> (On Linux, ramdisks are mountpoints like any other so that would be >>> trivial; but then again, on Linux, the kernel is good enough at using >>> extra >>> RAM for disk cache automatically, that you get the benefits of a RAMdisk >>> automatically). >>> >>> Benoit >>> >>> >>> 2014-07-18 22:39 GMT-04:00 Geoff Lankow <ge...@darktrojan.net>: >>> >>> Today I tried to build Firefox on a RAM disk for the first time, and >>>> although I succeeded through trial and error, it occurs to me that there >>>> are probably things I could do better. Could someone who regularly does >>>> this make a blog post or an MDN page about their workflow and some tips >>>> and >>>> tricks? I think it'd be useful to many people but I (read: Google) >>>> couldn't >>>> find anything helpful. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> GL >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> dev-platform mailing list >>>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
