Re: [yocto] Memory requirements for building images with different architectures

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 08/09/2023 09:06:39+0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 8:42 AM Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > Le ven. 8 sept. 2023 à 08:01, MOHAMMED HASSAN <hassanchattarki@gmail.com>
> > a écrit :
> >
> >> Right, you're not the only one!
> >> See
> >>
> >> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/system-requirements.html#minimum-free-disk-space
> >> and https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/dev-manual/disk-space.html
> >>
> >> I can use rm_work and remove all the build related files, however every
> >> subsequent build would take a lot more time to build. I want my builds to
> >> be as fast as possible. Do you have any suggestions to for faster builds
> >> while consuming less memory space.
> >>
> >
> > rm_work does not impact build time.
> >
> 
> That's not true, if only do_install task checksum changed, then without
> rm_work you can reuse existing do_compile and re-run just following tasks,
> while with rm_work it will need to rebuild from scratch (because
> do_populate_sysroot and do_package sstate archives won't be valid anymore)
> adding more wear to those NVME drives.
> 

Did you really have any wear related issues on SSD disks? The
autobuilders are churning a lot of builds and the disk are doing just
fine.



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