SSTATE CACHE REWORK + APT CACHE MOUNT BIND ========================================== These are the results in the first development version that works in every condition. It carries on a lot of debugging code and it is NOT fully optimised both under the code-review and the performances. Nevertheless, it still improved: devel3 (public) + npriv11 (private) ------------------------------------ fresh cache ------------ basic-os -------------- 3949 Mb (max) | 3176 Mb (max) 2968 Mb (rest) | 2277 Mb (rest) 4281 Mb (deb) | 4281 Mb (deb) 803 Mb (wic) | 802 Mb (wic) <-- cache! 520 Mb (cache) | 520 Mb (cache) time: 3m28s | time: 20s 10.40x ------------ original --------------------- time: 7m58s | time: 2m17s 2.30x 6.85x devel3 (public) + npriv11 (private) ------------------------------------ fresh cache ------------ complete -------------- 32466 Mb (max) | 27741 Mb (max) 23298 Mb (rest) | 18657 Mb (rest) 4281 Mb (deb) | 4281 Mb (deb) 8989 Mb (wic) | 8987 Mb (wic) <-- cache! 4398 Mb (cache) | 4398 Mb (cache) time: 12m19s | time: 3m24s 3.62x ------------ original --------------------- time: 21m17s | time: 8m28s 1.73x 2.49x The mount bind approach is completely general but not yet used for apt lists but just for the .deb packages. Moreover, the rootfs tar options (--exclude/s) are too extreme and the cached build is smaller than the fresh build. This obviously destroys the reproducibility but it is just a single point change.