how to speed up mock?

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:05:05PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:

> the real bottleneck is not the rpmbuild itself (with ccache it cab be 
> very fast), but the mock surroundings. suppose there is build which 
> takes about 2 minutes and in mock it takes about 5 minutes:-(
> most of the time is in yum, python tar, gzip etc which all use only one 
> cpu/core and it's very slow!

This is very bad performance, on my 2.5GHZ Athlon dual core with 4 GB
RAM a very simple src.rpm (pyhunspell-0.1-2.fc12.src.rpm) rebuilds in 18
seconds with tmpfs plugin enabled.

Another bottleneck could be the connection to your Fedora mirror.

Regards
Till
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