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How to get work done while building the tree

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Over past several months I've noticed that when our partners come here onsite. They like to build Windows Mobile images on their laptops while trying to get other work done at the same time. The problem with that is when compiler, linker, etc. do their job they slow down the computer significantly because there is a lot of compiling and disk I/O happening.

 

Interestingly Microsoft engineers that worked on the build process foreseen this problem. There is "secret" switch that is actually described in the documentation but not many people know about it. It runs all build processes in an idle priority. All you need to do is add "-m" to the blddemo command.

 

The pros of doing this you already know -- you can work without significant slowdowns while your image is building. The cons, however, are insignificant -- it might take 5 minutes longer to build the image.

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  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2007
    If the con is that insignificant, maybe it should be that way be default?

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2007
    Is it described in the documentation?  I cannot find it from the document...

  • Anonymous
    May 09, 2007
    Bt the way, how is the other way to set to highest priority? We think it takes too long to makeimg/buildpkg. thanks

  • Anonymous
    May 09, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2007
    這是在 HoppeRx這個blog看到的： How to get work done while building the tree用過platform builder 的人都知道，不管你的 pc 多厲害，在build image時，整個系統都會進入慢動作狀態，這是因為build動作佔用了大量的disk, cpu IO。MS的工程師也預知了這樣的狀況，所以預留的退路 -- 但是寫在很隱晦不明的地方，就是在下blddemo這個命令時，加上 "-m " option ，這樣就會讓