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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Another thing that might speed up testing is to put things in a
> ramdisk -- I believe poolie is having a play with this as I type, maybe
> he can follow up...

Yep, I am.  I'm going to see if I get a whole run to pass through it
before I propose something, and also see whether it's any better.

tmpfs helps bzr's test suite a lot, and I believe that ec2 local disks
are said to be unusually slow.

For reference the tests currently take about 4h30m.

To make up for it, pulling packages from the AWS Ubuntu mirror is
astonishingly faster at ~25 megabytes/second.

Martin