Hi Rob, On Wednesday, 2011-08-31 12:01:31 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
> BTW, what should say the pre-reqs are for storage? Source, including > /main and /extras is around 4GB. Matthias suggested 70 GB for > building, which could be done on fast external storage. So 75 GB free > space total is reasonable? One non-debug build on Linux can be done with roughly 8-10GB (git svn, add 2-3GB when using plain svn) plus 5GB or more if you use ccache (recommended), don't know about Windows. Building libraries with debug can get huge on all platforms, I have no real numbers for that as I only build selected modules with debug as needed. I think 20GB are sufficient for a normal non-debug build. Add more if your mileage varies and don't just want to build, Matthias' estimation is probably a good rule of thumb. > Do we have any RAM guidance? is 1GB sufficient? 2 GB? 1GB under Linux works, did that two weeks ago, it starts swapping at some points, have at least 2GB swap area. The more RAM the better. I now have 8GB and ~70% are used as cache during a build. The more CPUs the better to be able to, for example, use build -P2 -- -P3 with 4 CPUs, that creates 6 parallel processes, 3 per dmake and 2 dmake in different directories. Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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