I wrote:
> So, I would normally just change the 570 to 700 without asking. But
> as it happens, I would like to start using a ramdisk myself, and am
> wondering why it has to be 700 MB. I mean, I don't even have that
> much RAM total! Should we make a way to run the tests in a
> low-disk-usage mode, for example, automatically removing each test
> subdir after we're done with it? This wouldn't be the default, but it
> could be useful for people who want to run in a ramdisk.
Then I saw dlr's r14780, which said:
> +The minimum required size for testing ramdisk is approximately 700MB.
> +However, flagging your test targets for cleanup dramatically reduces
> +the space requirements (as shown in the example configuration above),
> +and thus your memory usage. Cleanup means more I/O, but since test
> +data is in-memory, there will be no performance degradation. Example:
> +
> +<blockquote><code>
> +make check CLEANUP=true
> +</code></blockquote>
...and realized that I was way, way behind the loop. Please ignore my
previous post :-).
-Karl
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Received on Fri May 20 17:09:06 2005