On 2011-05-04 12:06:45 (-0700), Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:12:59PM -0600, Stephen Shaw wrote: [...]
Its very likely that we wouldn't gain much from buying a bunch of SSDs.
Now that is true, as it doesn't seem like we are I/O bound, but CPU bound for the most part.
Actually, from our experience on the Packman OBS, it is extremely I/O bound. Except for a few mad packages that take ages to compile, setting up the build chroot is the major bottleneck. We resorted to using 2 worker processes at most on the build hosts because with more than that, the boxes are just idle waiting on I/O to happen (which eventually slows down the absolute build time). cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf