Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> 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

Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > 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? >> > > N

Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-21 Thread Andrew Dunstan
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

Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Page
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

Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Ringer
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

Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-21 Thread Noah Misch
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

Re: [HACKERS] Making testing on Windows easier

2013-01-20 Thread Craig Ringer
On 01/17/2013 09:36 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > 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