From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:48:14 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Speeding up builds In-Reply-To: <20131105002042.704dabfe@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:20:42 +0100") References: <20131105002042.704dabfe@skate> Message-ID: <87mwljohj5.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Dear Dallas Clement, > On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:00:54 -0600, Dallas Clement wrote: >> I'm just looking for some tips on how to speed up my build times. My >> rootfs contains many packages with lots of dependencies. Even with 8 >> fast Xeon cores, 64GB of RAM, SSDs, and SAS drives, my builds are >> taking 1 hour and 50 minutes. ~2h sounds quite long indeed. I don't use as many packages as you, but a fairly big config (123 packages, including Qt and Gstreamer1) takes < 20mins on a pretty normal quad haswell (E3-1240) / 32G RAM / SSDs. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard