memo: comparing pbuilder with tmpfs and cowbuilder


Test: build GNU hello 20 times with pbuilder/cowbuilder

pbuilder (with tmpfs)
 real 9m11.320s
 user 5m10.215s
 sys 1m21.989s 
cowbuilder
 real 8m31.191s
 user 4m27.629s
 sys 1m15.661s

Conclusion: probably it's better to use cowbuiler (at least for me)

Comments

  1. Last time I tried pbuilder wih tmpfs, it was wasting time copying files (I think it was the apt cache)

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    1. Probably yes, even if apt cache is in tmpfs, every time it is extracted and it costs.

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