Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left. That is more than enough to
compile even OOo with no space problems.
Thoughts?
This is Gentoo, where all us users are reputed to spend their days
passing around benchmarks of "emerge -e world", right?
Try it. :)
Yep, we do that. Mine is about 12 hours. I would post it but I got a
Blocker instead. I'll work on that and post it later. lol
Point is, I have more than enough memory to test the theory that putting
portage's work directory on tmpfs is faster/slower than a hard drive. I
tested it and it really didn't make much difference. Most of the time
it was slower but a couple times it was faster but only by a few seconds.
I guess drives are just a lot faster nowadays or at least fast enough.
I dunno.
Dale
:-) :-)
