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On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:35:16PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> As I said, I was watching firefox being compiled. All the preliminary stages |
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> had been completed by then. All the source code should have been in memory, |
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> but I can't say the same for any other libraries. On the other hand, just |
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> how much time is needed to load all the development libraries needed for |
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> this compilation? |
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Not necessarily - gcc pulls in quite a range of system headers, which |
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may be cached by the kernel less aggressively than the other stuff |
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you're keeping in RAM. |
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I'd recommend running iostat (in the sysstat ebuild) to see at least |
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what kind of IO is going on here. You may also want to experiment with |
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remounting e.g., /usr/include on a tmpfs. |
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Dustin |
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