Anecdotally, I noticed that FreeBSD VMs on OSX runners took around ten minutes longer to finish when I didn't override the default memory value - around 30 minutes for 13G (1) vs 20 minutes for 8G (1)(2).
So a slightly better benchmark test was ran, and came back with the following results (1)(2).
Memory
1st run
2nd
3rd
4th
8GB
36m 27s
31m 37s
25m 36s
19m 39s
10GB
27m 18s
29m 16s
21m 31s
26m 42s
12GB
33m 44s
38m 25s
59m 18s
41m 06s
13GB
50m 45s
47m 33s
28m 58s
46m 30s
There looks to be some element of randomness here, but at the same time, the 40-50m runs do seem to be unevenly skewed to the higher memory VMs. Needs many more repeated runs though for a pattern to really show.
Anecdotally, I noticed that FreeBSD VMs on OSX runners took around ten minutes longer to finish when I didn't override the default memory value - around 30 minutes for 13G (1) vs 20 minutes for 8G (1) (2).
So a slightly better benchmark test was ran, and came back with the following results (1) (2).
There looks to be some element of randomness here, but at the same time, the 40-50m runs do seem to be unevenly skewed to the higher memory VMs. Needs many more repeated runs though for a pattern to really show.