Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (327 mails)

["R. Tyler Croy" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Stephen Shaw wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 02:19,  <doiggl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello
> > With the opensuse build service [obs] getting more usage every day
> > I wonder if this would make a diffence :-
> >
> > 1. Use  solid state disks [ssd] to  improve build times of package rpms
> > on, perhaps point the BuildRoot or _tmppath to the ssd's
> >
> > Reason for asking.
> > Improve the packaging times during busy times on obs.
> >
> > Cheers Glenn.
>
> Unfortunately there is a cost associated, but it would be cool to get
> a bunch of fusion IO cards and see how they perform.

The laptop I do all my builds from before submitting to OBS has an SSD in it,
and I must say, it's delightful :)

    % osc build --ccache

And I'm off to the races!

That said, this is a simple Corsair X64, I've priced higher quality SSDs for
servers before and it's a good jump in price from standard laptop SSDs still :(


Cheers
- R. Tyler Croy
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