building on ram disks?

[Rich Pixley]

Elena of Valhalla wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Rich Pixley <rich.pixley at palm.com> wrote:
>   
>> Is anyone building on ram disks?  And if so, what sorts of build speed
>> improvements are you seeing?
>>     
>
> is it even possible (on a common hi-end pc)?  my tmp is always in the
> 10-15GB range, so it couldn't fit on any ramdisk i have hopes to
> access in the nearby future
Same here on sizes, but a 16G ram disk is within reasonable range these 
days.  If we assume that you want that much again in available ram, then 
we're talking about a 32G server, which is very much in the reasonable 
range.

64G servers are not too far out there.  And 16G solid state devices are 
also available for a few thousand $US.

Dont' really need the whole thing on ramdisk.  Putting the build 
directory on ramdisk would probably be sufficient for the biggest wins.

--rich
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