Comments on: Speeding up mock http://fetzig.org/2010/03/04/speeding-up-mock/ About open source, education and random other Stuff Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul Howarth http://fetzig.org/2010/03/04/speeding-up-mock/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Paul Howarth Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:10:06 +0000 http://fetzig.org/?p=106#comment-82 The single thing you can do to speed up mock the most is to enable the tmpfs plugin (build on RAM disk). config_opts['plugin_conf']['tmpfs_enable'] = True config_opts['plugin_conf']['tmpfs_opts'] = {'required_ram_mb': 2048} You'll probably get away with 1024 MB for most builds but I use 2048 as I have a lot of RAM on my builder. I was over the moon when I found out how much this speeded up builds on my system. The single thing you can do to speed up mock the most is to enable the tmpfs plugin (build on RAM disk).

config_opts['plugin_conf']['tmpfs_enable'] = True
config_opts['plugin_conf']['tmpfs_opts'] = {‘required_ram_mb’: 2048}

You’ll probably get away with 1024 MB for most builds but I use 2048 as I have a lot of RAM on my builder.

I was over the moon when I found out how much this speeded up builds on my system.

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