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| From: | Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles | ||
| Date: | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:50:34 | ||
| Message-Id: | 45BFE6A6.9000009@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles by Neil Bothwick |
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| 1 | Neil Bothwick wrote: |
| 2 | > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | >> Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I |
| 5 | >> compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > That's fine if you have 8GB of RAM... |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of |
| 12 | memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Steve |
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| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |