13 Dec
2008
13 Dec
'08
5:01 a.m.
This is what we are doing on http://testing.drupal.org. Kieran 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