I'm curious, has anyone done any research or benchmarks on running tests with higher frequency CPUs vs more CPU cores? Assuming tests are able to utilise all the cores (via parallel_tests perhaps).
On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:56:32 UTC+11, William Madden wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I need a CI server. I've been thinking about this for a little while and > I'm leaning towards hosting my own CI server rather than using somebody > else's service - primarily because I don't want to pay someone else for > something I can maintain and because they tend to be slow. With regard to > maintaining my own CI server, here are the conclusions I've come to: > > 1. Headless servers are extremely frustrating to debug > - I want to be able to plug in a screen to set everything up, and > to debug it when it (inevitably) breaks > 2. Remote servers tend to be slow > - E.g. Amazon EC2 > - Also they cost money I don't have > 3. Maintaining my own hardware is fine, but I'm going to be travelling > between countries a lot in the next few months and I need to be able to > take it with me > - So smaller is better > > My app is pretty straightforward, a Rails server and HTML/JS frontend > tested with RSpec, Jasmine and Cucumber. Running the full suite of tests > takes about 2 minutes on my MBP. > > I've been thinking about getting a mini-pc/nettop/<stupid sales term for > "small computer">. Anybody have any recommendations - either for small > portable hardware or for a hosted service that will perform adequately and > not cost too much? > > Cheers, > > Will > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/_TgCZf6JowQJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
