Thanks Chris, I was wondering if a i7 was worth it seems it is and yes for the matter, I did have issues with the kernel community and trying to work then out. Nick
On 14-10-22 03:59 PM, Chris Tapp wrote: > > On 20 Oct 2014, at 21:44, nick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am wondering from your experience how long is the largest build you have >> ever seen and what was it building. I am >> considering a high powered build system for Yocto and want to known about >> build times in order to help me with >> purchasing decisions. > > There was a recent thread discussing this - have a look at > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2014-October/021808.html > > You need to start by working out what you'll be spending most of your time > doing - full image builds, incremental images, single recipes, etc. > > My build system has an i7-3820 overclocked to 4.6 GHz with 16 GB RAM and > SSDs. It takes about an hour to build an X11 image from scratch (no shared > state, source already downloaded). I could reduce the build time to about 25 > minutes by upgrading to a new CPU (12 core, 24 threads) for $2700 - once you > have your use-case you can do the math to work out what the payback time will > be ;-) > > -- > > Chris Tapp > [email protected] > www.keylevel.com > > ---- > You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap! > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
