Re: Git, Builds, and Filesystem Type

[Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>]

On Thursday, February 09, 2012 04:24:47 pm Hilco Wijbenga 
wrote:
> On 9 February 2012 13:53, Martin Fick 
<mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 09, 2012 02:23:18 pm Hilco
> > Wijbenga
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> For the record, our (Java) project is quite small.
> >> It's 43MB (source and images) and the entire
> >> directory tree after building is about 1.6GB (this
> >> includes all JARs downloaded by Maven). So we're not
> >> talking TBs of data.
> >> 
> >> Any thoughts on which FSs to include in my tests? Or
> >> simply which FS might be more appropriate?
> > 
> > tmpfs is probably fastest hands down if you can use it
> > (even if you have to back it by swap).
> 
> I don't have quite that much RAM. :-)

But I am sure that you have that much disk space which you 
can allocate to swap, if not you already couldn't build it.  
And tmpfs swapping is still likely faster than a persistent 
FS (it will not need to block on syncs).  If you are 
benchmarking, it is likely worth you effort since that will 
probably mark the upper performance bound,

-Martin

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