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
>

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On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

>
This is what we are doing on http://testing.drupal.org.
>
> Kieran
>
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> 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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