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. ----- "Kieran Lal" <kieran@acquia.com> wrote:
Sorry, we mounted the MySQL server database files on a tmpfs in RAM.
David Strauss can provide details.
Kieran
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Dmitri Gaskin < dmitrig01@gmail.com > wrote:
Wait, we're running SQLite on TDO?
Dmitri
On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:
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
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