From cda565a671e11fdfab87f382fd5f236e145527a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Kirchner Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 14:28:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] BUILDING: Add note about CPU performance --- BUILDING.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 03c44ed6971..6fddad0171f 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ You can skip to the [setup guide for Kubernetes](QUICKSTART-EKS.md) or the [setu The build process artifacts and resulting images can consume in excess of 80GB in the local directory. +The build process is also fairly demanding on your CPU, since we build all included software from scratch. +(The first time. Package builds are cached, and only changes are built afterward.) +The build scales well to 32+ cores. +The first time you build, the fastest machines can take about 12 minutes while slower machines with only a couple cores can take 3-4 hours. + #### Linux The build system requires certain operating system packages to be installed.