[yocto] Suitable machine for yocto

[Usman Haider]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 10 September 2017 at 12:00, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The thing to remember with SSDs is that builds can write *a lot* of data
> and this can destroy SSDs faster than you'd like.
>
> Personally I find lots of RAM more cost effective.  If you've got a
> moderate amount then a slow commit time in fstab lets the kernel batch
> writes wisely.  If you've got plenty of RAM (my machine has 64GB) then a
> good sized tmpfs (32GB here) mounted at TMPDIR (the local.conf setting, not
> /tmp) in with rm_work means you literally have no I/O latency.  To persist
> files either copy them out or for example set DEPLOY_DIR to a real disk.
>
> Ross
>
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Thanks,

I'll consider this too. A lot of techincal stuff to learn here on this
mailing list :)

Regards,
Usman
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