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On Friday 24 January 2003 1:09 pm, Andy Arbon wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I seem to remember that a while back there was talk of modifying Portage |
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> so that it could do compilations in RAM disk rather than using the HD. |
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> I'm curious whether this idea was accepted by the devs and if so, when |
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> it's targeted to be finished? |
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> I have a fair amount of RAM and a slow disk, so I'm quite keen on the idea. |
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Try running vmstat while emerging; do you actually see any disk activity? On |
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this machine with 500M ram, my last kde emerge barely touched the disks. |
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