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Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> hat am 28. März 2012 um 17:10 geschrieben:
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> > That is one approach.
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> > Another is to use VMs.
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> Too slow. Tried it for FPC release building, but checkout, export + build
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> takes >40 mins (Core2 6600. Virtualbox with hardware virtualization enabled)
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Here it takes only a few minutes. </p>
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> > I ended up stacking relative cheap Pentium D boxes (HP office machines,
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> typically dc7600sff 2.8GHz, 1GB, 80GB hdd for Eur 55-65, inaudible when
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> idle). Nobody wants PIV's and derivatives anymore, but the later Pentium D
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> series have 64-bit capability, DDR2 and sata, so are relatively cheap to
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> maintain if something breaks down, and the default config is enough for FPC
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> release building.
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> Cheap usb KVM, first generation TFT monitor. Whole stack under a table,
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> relative low on space.
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> (all el cheapo since typically only used during release time)
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> Disclaimer: wife-acceptancy-factor not an issue here.
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> > VMs are nowadays very easy to setup and they run almost as fast (sometimes
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> > even faster) as the host system.
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> Only hypervisors run fast. Anything heterogenous with an image as storage
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> is quite slow. Slower than 5 year old HW from the dumpster.
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<p style="margin: 0px;">I was suprised that some of my virtualbox images compiled Lazarus faster than my host machine. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">I didn't tune anything, so I can't give any advice. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Maybe I was just lucky.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Mattias</p>
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