[yocto] tmp on NFS

[Mike Looijmans]

On 07-10-15 15:04, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 7 October 2015 at 13:59, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com
> <mailto:ross.burton at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     Follow the link in the patch to the referenced bug, and comment #8 by Mark
>     Hatle explains the problems that Wind River were seeing in testing:
>
>
> I should also add that many people buy lots of RAM and do builds with
> build/tmp in a tmpfs as it gives you a noticeable performance increase, so I
> dread to think how much it will hurt to do a build with build/tmp on a network
> mount.

Telling Ubuntu to actually use all that RAM for some serious caching (e.g. 
allow 50% dirty pages, and extend the timeout to several minutes), and (if you 
have >14) putting cfq back into its rightful place as io scheduler made a huge 
difference for me.



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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