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Duncan wrote: |
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> If you have lots of memory (2 gigs or better, 4 gigs is nice, I have 8 |
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> but that's overkill), strongly consider setting up your PORTAGE_TMPDIR |
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> (/var/tmp by default) on tmpfs. |
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Actually, as long as you have enough swap your RAM doesn't really |
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matter. In the worst case it just swaps to disk, which is what it would |
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be doing anyway if you didn't have a tmpfs. Even if only 10% of the |
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short-lived files didn't make it to disk it would be a huge savings in |
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IO waits. |
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Also, consider using ionice (from schedutils I think) - it lets you |
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schedule IO the way nice schedules CPU. It can have a big impact if you |
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have a lot of disk churn. |
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