On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:45 PM, John Morahan
<john.morahan@gmail.com> wrote:
This may be obvious, but if you place the database file on a tmpfs, it
runs much faster. You can do this by specifying e.g. /dev/shm/drupal as
the database name when you install. Pointless for a real site, of
course, but useful for a once-off local install to run the simpletests.
On my laptop (which admittedly runs dm-crypt, perhaps putting the HD at
an unfair disadvantage) the difference is on the scale of under 17
minutes versus over two hours for running the full test suite.
Just a heads up in case anyone else didn't realize this.
-john