[development] Testing SQLite on Linux

[Kieran Lal]

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 at 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:
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> This is what we are doing on http://testing.drupal.org.
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> Kieran
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> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:45 PM, John Morahan <john.morahan at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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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