[yocto] Performance improvements and machine build configuration

[Ross Burton]

On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 22:37, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> > My machine has 16G of RAM, and after a good build will have 12G of "cache" (according to /proc), but the disk activity light was frantic. I can only imagine it would be more frantic with less RAM to act as an over-sized disk cache.
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> Frantic but was it actually limiting the build time? It would seem not
> according to Elvis observations.

No idea, it's always had 16G.  One day I'll do some benchmarking.

Ross