[development] Testing SQLite on Linux

[David Timothy Strauss]

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 at acquia.com> wrote: 
> Sorry, we mounted the MySQL server database files on a tmpfs in RAM. 
> 
> David Strauss can provide details. 
> 
> Kieran 
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> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Dmitri Gaskin < dmitrig01 at gmail.com > wrote: 
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> 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: 
> 

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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