Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> hat am 28. März 2012 um 17:10 geschrieben:
>[...] > > That is one approach. > > Another is to use VMs. > > Too slow. Tried it for FPC release building, but checkout, export + build > takes >40 mins (Core2 6600. Virtualbox with hardware virtualization enabled) Here it takes only a few minutes. > > I ended up stacking relative cheap Pentium D boxes (HP office machines, > typically dc7600sff 2.8GHz, 1GB, 80GB hdd for Eur 55-65, inaudible when > idle). Nobody wants PIV's and derivatives anymore, but the later Pentium D > series have 64-bit capability, DDR2 and sata, so are relatively cheap to > maintain if something breaks down, and the default config is enough for FPC > release building. > > Cheap usb KVM, first generation TFT monitor. Whole stack under a table, > relative low on space. > > (all el cheapo since typically only used during release time) > > Disclaimer: wife-acceptancy-factor not an issue here. > > > VMs are nowadays very easy to setup and they run almost as fast (sometimes > > even faster) as the host system. > > Only hypervisors run fast. Anything heterogenous with an image as storage > is quite slow. Slower than 5 year old HW from the dumpster. > I was suprised that some of my virtualbox images compiled Lazarus faster than my host machine. I didn't tune anything, so I can't give any advice. Maybe I was just lucky. Mattias
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