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On 08/16/2011 04:56 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 09:40:14 Robert Yang wrote:
>> Thanks for you reply, yes, one build one restart(bitbake core-image-sato,
>> then restart the computer, and bitbake again) makes the build time stable.
>> I'm doing this now.
>
> Are you using my scripts (scripts/contrib/test_build_time.sh) ? Much of the
> initial part of the script is ensuring that caches get cleared out; thus
> rebooting should not be necessary in order to get stable results.

I'm sorry to say that I have tried it, but I don't know its principle,
and it made my git repo have too many untracked or modified files.
So I built it manually again:-)

// Robert

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>