Interesting additional: That wasn't the fastest drive I could have bought, just the best speed/cost balance.
I could get one which is approaching double that speed - or at least it's specced that way! Dave On 10 Oct 2011, at 03:03, Michael Hope wrote: > Random data for the day: Dave Pigott has installed some new PandaBoard > build machines in the validation lab. They're identical to mine > except that root is on USB Flash instead of NFS, and they have a much > faster flash drive for the build area. > > The time taken to bootstrap and test gcc-linaro-2011.09 with C, C++, > Fortran, and LTO is: > * ursa3, ursa4 (Toshiba USB stick): 301 minutes build / 369 test > * ursa2 (no-name USB stick): 324 minutes build / 422 test > * tcpanda (fast USB stick): 274 minutes build / 265 test > > So the new combo gives a 1.38 x faster build. I'm surprised as I > though the build was CPU bound. I'd hate to see what building on an > SD card is like. > > Note that /tmp is in RAM, /scratch is ext4, the new boards use > noatime, and the kernel doesn't have the new USB performance fix. > > -- Michael _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
