Hi jack,

We are developping on a Dell poweredge 1800 server Dual xeon 3.2 Ghz, 2 Gigs of Ram and a mirrored (raid 0) 7200 rpm SATA drive. We have set write caching on just to speed up HD access (though we have to take the risk that something can go wrong).

We are building a 14MB application in just 3 or 4 seconds. IMO, the key is to have quick HD access because the building process is going to access those files. Doing a recompile takes about 10 seconds or so.

Certainly it is possible to speed it up by using ram drives or at least 10.000 rpm drives in raid 5 configuration, but we could not affort that up that point.


Walter,





>>>My projects are huge and I am wondering if a faster machine would give me faster builds. I am currently running on a Dell Pentium 4 3.4GHz with 1G memory using XP. Do you think there is something out there that would be significantly faster?
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>>How huge are them projects? How long does it take?
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>>Is the option to rebuild all turned on? This should normally not be necessary.
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>Rebuild all is not on.
>The app generated is 21M, the pjt file is 2.6 M.
>It takes about 1 minute to rebuild.