Comment 10 for bug 1290716

Ev,

Do you have a package that runs through the system in a few minutes, and how many minutes is few minutes? :)

The least I saw is 18 minutes in my runs.

https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvOb-Wd__AD8dEhkeGRWUzBnSmZ5SWhOT0RlQ0tyWmc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

Contains the list of timings in about 15 successful runs and here is a summary:
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1. testrunner takes almost half the time when I used standard.medium instead of standard.small (6-9 mins -> 3 mins)
2. Imagebuilder completes from 8-9 mins -> 3 mins when 4G RAM is used

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1. bsb does not conclusively gain anything by increasing either RAM nor cpu cores
2. ppa-assigner stays waiting for ever because launchad taking too long to clean the 'dirty' ppa's. I've had to force make the ppa's available to continue on this.

I am going to do an MP for imagebuilder and test runner as a first step.