This is what we are doing on <a href="http://testing.drupal.org">http://testing.drupal.org</a>.<br><br>Kieran<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:45 PM, John Morahan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.morahan@gmail.com">john.morahan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This may be obvious, but if you place the database file on a tmpfs, it<br>
runs much faster. You can do this by specifying e.g. /dev/shm/drupal as<br>
the database name when you install. Pointless for a real site, of<br>
course, but useful for a once-off local install to run the simpletests.<br>
<br>
On my laptop (which admittedly runs dm-crypt, perhaps putting the HD at<br>
an unfair disadvantage) the difference is on the scale of under 17<br>
minutes versus over two hours for running the full test suite.<br>
<br>
Just a heads up in case anyone else didn't realize this.<br>
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-john<br>
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