[yocto] building and using yocto 1.1

[Xianghua Xiao]

I do want to point out that:
1.1 is 12 hours while 1.0 was 8 hours, using the same machine on the
same network, not sure why.
input under sato does not work, it's showing some non-English letters
while i type.

xianghua

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/11 11:13 AM, Xianghua Xiao wrote:
>> core2duo E7200 2.53Ghz  4GB 500GB
>>
>> 1 thread 1 parallel due to past experience I had from the
>> past(parallel make did not work well reliably)
>
> It is a goal of the Yocto Project (and Open Embedded) that parallel building is
> full supported, and any identified bugs are fixed quickly.
>
> Enable parallel builds and your performance will be significantly better.
>
> If you have hyperthreading enabled, and setup a 4/4 parallel build.  I would
> expect about a 4-5 hour build time.  (May be faster)
>
> --Mark
>
>> thanks,
>> xianghua
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> What machine are you using (amount of ram, disk space, and cpu cores)?
>>>
>>> What configuration did you set for parallel builds?
>>>
>>> I can build 1.1 on an 8 core i7 system w/ 8 GB of ram, set with parallel
>>> settings of 8 thread and 8 parallel make jobs, in about 100 minutes (or less).
>>>
>>> --Mark
>>>
>>> On 10/28/11 9:20 AM, Xianghua Xiao wrote:
>>>> when I built 1.0 out of the box, it took 7 hours.
>>>> on the same machine/network, yocto 1.1 took a full 12 hours, not sure
>>>> what happened to cause this nearly doubled build time.
>>>>
>>>> after the default build(bitbake core-image-sato), I run 'runqemu
>>>> qemux86', click on 'tasks', try to add a new task, however my input is
>>>> shown non-english, or garbage on screen, which I have seen the same
>>>> issue on yocto1.0 release as well. this is a 10.04 ubuntu 64bit
>>>> machine.
>>>>
>>>> don't know what to say about it, just my OOB(out-of-box) experience
>>>>
>>>> xianghua
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