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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might |
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> find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a tmpfs |
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> for /var/tmp/portage. Note that depending on what you're building you might |
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> need a fairly large tmpfs, and it could trigger swapping. |
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I agree, I use /dev/shm (4gigs) for my portage tmpdir and it has had a |
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bigger noticeable speed impact than ccache or niceness, and the |
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silence of zero disk activity (other than reading the distfiles in the |
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unpack stage and installing the compiled files) is nice, too. |
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