Re: Making testing on Windows easier

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Making testing on Windows easier
Date: 2013-01-21 12:55:44
Message-ID: 20130121125544.GA24205@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> I've found EC2 to be unusably slow for Windows builds, with a medium
> instance taking an hour and a half to do a simple build and "vcregress
> check". They're also restrictive in disk space terms, so you land up
> needing to add a second EBS volume.

Yikes. The "build DEBUG" step takes 5-7 minutes for me; I use EBS-optimized
m1.xlarge spot instances in US East (lately about US$0.19/hr). Fairly sure I
once used a c1.medium, though, and it still took <10 minutes. I don't know
why your experience has been so different.

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