On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:59:33AM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I suspect that it is _very_ unusual to have a source repo that crosses
> > multiple filesystems, and the original reason for this patch-series seems
> > to me to be likely to be more common than that multi-fs case. So having
> > the logic go the other way would seem to match the common case, no?
>
> Not sure if I'm the only one, but I noticed at some point that
> mounting the t/ directory of git.git on tmpfs gives a huge speed boost
> to the test suite...
I noticed it, too, but my solution was a little different:
$ git show f423ef5f
tests: allow user to specify trash directory location
The tests generate a large amount of I/O activity creating
and destroying repositories and files. We can improve the
time it takes to run the test suite by creating trash
directories on filesystems with better performance
characteristic, even though we may not want the rest of the
git repository on those filesystems (e.g., because they are
not network connected, or because they are temporary
ramdisks).
For example, on a dual processor system:
$ cd t && time make -j32
real 1m51.562s
user 0m59.260s
sys 1m20.933s
# /dev/shm is tmpfs
$ cd t && time make -j32 GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/dev/shm"
real 1m1.484s
user 0m53.555s
sys 1m5.264s
-Peff
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