Copy input and output of provers to RAM #71
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Note: I am seeing some crashes with these changes that I thought I had eliminated, marking the PR as draft until I figure it out. |
This changes the way Benchpress collects the prover's outputs from using a pipe to using temporary files that are read once the prover is done. On Unix systems, the temporary files default to being stored in `/dev/shm`; on other platforms, the default temporary directory is used. This ensures that the prover never gets stuck waiting for benchpress to read from pipes, but more importantly minimises context switches between the prover and benchpress.
This ensures that we don't benchmark the time it takes to load the problem from disk, and helps minimise noise in situations of high disk contention, and other noise from the filesystem cache. We are still limited by the RAM bandwidth but… what can you do. This is only effective on Unix (more precisely, on Unix systems where `/dev/shm` is actually in RAM); on Windows the default temporary directory will be used. To enable the same behavior on Windows, pass a RAM disk as `--ramdisk` argument. To disable the behavior on Linux, you can pass a directory that is not in RAM to the `--ramdisk` argument. The files will still be copied.
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This is the RAM disk part of #69, split off from #69
It includes the changes from #69 because there are multiple changes in
Misc.mland that would cause conflicts otherwise; hence, it should be merged after #69. The other two commits can be reviewed independently.