<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>We have one of the MyISAM databases symlinked to tmpfs in RAM. It's fast and somewhat unreliable, but I have no reason to believe that if it provides test results that the results are compromised in accuracy.<br><br>----- "Kieran Lal" <kieran@acquia.com> wrote:
<br>> <link href="/zimbra/css/msgview.css?v=081003031927" rel="stylesheet">Sorry, we mounted the MySQL server database files on a tmpfs in RAM.<br>> <br>> David Strauss can provide details.<br>> <br>> Kieran<br>> <br>> <div class="gmail_quote">> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Dmitri Gaskin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmitrig01@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmitrig01@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;"><div style="">> Wait, we're running SQLite on TDO?<div><br>> </div><font color="#888888"><div>
Dmitri</div></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <div><br>> <div><div>On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:</div><br>> <blockquote>This is what we are doing on <a href="http://testing.drupal.org" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>> <font color="#888888"><br>> -john<br>> </font></blockquote></div><br>> </blockquote></div>
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