On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:44:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Panu Matilainen:
> Lets start with the basics:
> - is sqlite even involved - it will only be used on rawhide builds if
> mock bootstrap is used
> - does it make a difference if you override _db_backend to bdb/sqlite
> from mock config / cli define
> - a reproducer please (eg, what package is considerably slower to
> build than before, and by how much)
And: Does the difference reproduce when building on tmpfs?
Good time to say that you can use an NBD loopback to mock-build either
on a userspace ramdisk or backed by a disk but discarding flush
requests. The performance is indistinguishable from tmpfs (and much
more flexible in other ways). I did some benchmarking a couple of
weeks ago:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-May/msg00053.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-May/msg00074.html
Easy set up is:
# rm -f /tmp/sock
# nbdkit -U /tmp/sock memory 100G
# nbd-client -b 512 -unix /tmp/sock /dev/nbd0 -connections 4
# mkfs.xfs /dev/nbd0
# mount /dev/nbd0 /var/lib/mock
or using
http://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin.1.html:
# rm -f /tmp/sock
# nbdkit -U /tmp/sock tmpdisk size=100G
# nbd-client -b 512 -unix /tmp/sock /dev/nbd0 -connections 1
# mount /dev/nbd0 /var/lib/mock
or (requires bleeding edge nbdkit):
# rm -f /tmp/sock
# lvcreate -L 100G -n tmp /dev/fedora
# nbdkit -U /tmp/socket --filter=fua fuamode=discard file /dev/fedora/tmp
# nbd-client -b 512 -unix /tmp/sock /dev/nbd0 -connections 4
# mkfs.xfs /dev/nbd0
# mount /dev/nbd0 /var/lib/mock
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