On 9 March 2012 10:36, Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 8 March 2012 21:24, Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On 9 March 2012 07:08, Ken Werner <ken.wer...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> On 03/08/2012 09:03 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >>>> >>> Ah, thanks - I forgot about that. It saves about 16GB of space and running >>> on tmpfs saves about 30 minutes on my setup. Thanks! >> >> You can build a Gnome distro from source all in RAM. How awesome is that. > > Hmmmm - can we increase our throughput on the x86 builders in the cloud > by doing this for our build areas ?
The x86_64 EC2 instances are already fast but are marginal on the amount of memory and get expensive past that. The i686 instances have limited RAM and I'd have to use setarch or similar on a x86_64 host to get more. Not worth it unfortunately. Another trap is EC2 rounds your usage up to the nearest hour. Saving 10 minutes on a 1:30 build doesn't reduce the cost. -- Michael _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
