On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Branko Čibej<brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
>> I have spent time on this and got it working. The performance speedup
>> was pretty minimal though. Windows does not come with a RAM disk
>> driver so you have to get something third party. Maybe they are not
>> high quality?
>>
>> I am on Vista which makes this a little easier to setup because it has
>> a "mklink" command that lets you create a symbolic link, just as you
>> can on Unix. I setup a RAM disk and formatted it as NTFS. This is
>> important because FAT32 has a two-second timestamp resolution on files
>> and the test suite will slow itself down to accommodate that.
>>
>> I then create a "tests" folder on the RAM disk and use the mklink
>> command to make a symbolic link from svn-tests-work to this folder. I
>> also pointed TEMP and TMP to the RAM disk.
>>
>> It definitely works, but the speedup was just a couple minutes over
>> the entire test run.
>>
>
> Hm, that's improbable. When I was still running the Windows tests, on a
> ramdisk, I got a very substantial speedup. I did have to put the whole
> tree on ramdisk, though, including source and binaries. Which makes for
> a fairly large ramdisk, and you have to enable test cleanup; several
> gigs of RAM does help here.
I did it similar to what the Unix users are doing. The repositories
and working copies are on RAM (and I enable test cleanup).
I tweeted my results at the time:
# Using RamDisk shaved 11 minutes off SVN 1.6.2 file:// tests. From
45 to 34 minutes. Running svn:// now
# Shaved 6 more minutes off the time to run the SVN tests by excluding
RAM drive from AV checking. Down to 28 minutes to run the tests.
So I did get a good speedup. I think I was comparing the total time
to what I am able to get on Unix or OSX which was still less (under 20
mins).
Keep in mind this was with 1.6.x. trunk cannot get anywhere close to
those times currently.
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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on 2009-08-10 21:27:45 CEST