On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> On 01/21/2013 08:11 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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I was never able to determine why the Windows instances were so much
slower than the corresponding Linux instance of the same
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 01/21/2013 08:11 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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>>> I was never able to determine why the Windows instances were so much
>>> slower than the corresponding Linux instance of the same type.
>>
>> Full vs. para-virtualisation perhaps?
>>
>
> N
On 01/21/2013 08:11 AM, Dave Page wrote:
I was never able to determine why the Windows instances were so much
slower than the corresponding Linux instance of the same type.
Full vs. para-virtualisation perhaps?
No, Windows builds just are slower. For some time the buildfarm has been
repor
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 01/21/2013 08:55 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>>> I've found EC2 to be unusably slow for Windows builds, with a medium
>>> instance taking an hour and a half to do a simple build and
On 01/21/2013 08:55 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> I've found EC2 to be unusably slow for Windows builds, with a medium
>> instance taking an hour and a half to do a simple build and "vcregress
>> check". They're also restrictive in disk spa
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> I've found EC2 to be unusably slow for Windows builds, with a medium
> instance taking an hour and a half to do a simple build and "vcregress
> check". They're also restrictive in disk space terms, so you land up
> needing to add a sec
On 01/17/2013 09:36 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> Yeah. I used to have an AMI with the VS environment preinstalled on
> Amazon, but I managed to fat finger things and delete it at some point
> and haven't really had time to rebuild it.
>
> Having a script that would download and install all the pr