----- Original Message ---- > From: Geoffrey Broadwell <ge...@broadwell.org> > To: Paul Simon <getpsi...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com>; perl6-users@perl.org > Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 12:35:13 PM > Subject: Re: trouble building rakudo > > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 08:15 -0800, Paul Simon wrote: > > The system has only 256 MB with few resources being used. That's a big > difference > > between 12+ hours and 3 minutes! Maybe I should invest in more RAM :-) > > Yep, if you see swapping, more RAM is probably the single most effective > performance enhancer you can possibly throw at it. The slowdown from > swapping to a spinning disk completely swamps all performance > differences between CPUs, for instance. > > FWIW, the next thing to improve depends on your common tasks: a solid > state disk and a better video card are usually the best bets. The SSD > is great for compiles, program startups, and other disk-intensive > processes. (Get a good one, the cheap ones are awful.) The video card > is most useful if you do 3D, watch videos, or have a desktop that uses a > "compositing engine". If you just use twm to run xterms, it's not all > that valuable. :-) > > Still, both of those are WAY further down the list than getting enough > RAM to do the compile in main memory. >
Well I bumped up the RAM to 1GB and got more CPU share (this is a VPS at slicehost) - Rakuda built in 15 minutes or so. After it got built I bumped it back to 256 MB. I'm off to play with rakudo...
