[yocto] Suitable machine for yocto

[Chris Tapp]

> On 10 Sep 2017, at 12:53, Alex Lennon <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 10/09/2017 12:00, Chris Tapp wrote:
>>> On 10 Sep 2017, at 09:05, Alex Lennon <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Hi Usman,
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>>> On 10/09/2017 08:00, Usman Haider wrote:
>>>> Hi,
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>>>> Can someone please recommend some good machine for yocto environment and building sdks. I am interested in RAM, hard disk space, processor.
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>>> I use a AMD FX-8350 4GHz Eight-Core Processor on a GA-78LMT-USB3 mainboard with 32GB RAM and a couple of 4TB drives, running Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS.
>> I have a similar spec, except I use an SSD for the build area and only 16GB RAM (I don’t see more than about 12GB used during a build) - a build from scratch (excluding download time) takes just under an hour.
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> I am toying with putting an SSD in there. I use the Samsung Evo 1TB units for day to day on my laptop and that has worked very well for me. Maybe I should move that forward.

I use a 750 GB Evo - mainly so there’s lots of over-provisioning as builds create a lot of artefacts. Better wear than some HDDs though as the heads get a really hammering.

> 16GB is no doubt absolutely fine in general. I suppose in part it may depend on how many tasks are executing in parallel on the CPU cores.
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> I find a very few recipes are _real_ memory hogs. I imagine I could get by with less RAM but Chromium and possibly Qt5 stick in the mind as having intermittent build issues when the RAM was lower.

Sure, it will depend on what’s being built - this machine is quite old now and 16 GB needed a (not so) small mortgage when it was built ;-)

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> Cheers!
> 
> Alex
> 

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