On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Vamsee Kanakala <[email protected]> wrote: > ... I trigger the full test suite often enough on my workstation (4GB > RAM, 160GB SATA, Ubuntu 10.10 x32) to make this a pain point. So my next > iteration of upgrade I think, would be something like 8GB RAM, > (compatible) SSD, Ubuntu 11.04 x64.
On your current box run the test suite, data, DB out of a RAM disk or tmpfs. A clean chroot test environment on a 4-8GB RAM disk will work faster than any HDD/SSD. And much cheaper too. Sync the RAM disk state to HDD periodically so to ensure persistence. Syncing can run in background to minimize performance impact. There are several advantages in not touching disk. The Mailinator creator discusses how he reaches extremely high performance on old hardware using Java by running his app entirely out of RAM: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2007/01/architecture-of-mailinator.html - Raja _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
