Hi, Jiří Paleček wrote (21 May 2010 14:25:06 GMT) : > I agree that the build in live-helper could be a lot faster; yet I'm > not conviced using tmpfs is the right way to go
On a build box with 8GB RAM, building an ISO using tmpfs is *really* faster: the IO subsystem stops being the bottleneck, which now is the single CPU core speed (apart of mksquashfs, most of the build runs on a single CPU)... and the build time decreases *a lot* (no handy benchmark numbers, but I do remember my amazement when I switched to building in tmpfs). Once this step is done we can think of improving the CPU-bound build time, but practical experience showed me it was a really great first step to globally improve build time. > (there are various other opportunities for speed up - for one thing, > the chroot/chroot device does not help, etc.). Could you please elaborate on this? Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr-fingerprint.asc | Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. | This way, you achieve everything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
