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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at |
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>> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds |
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>> things up even more ;) |
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> The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, |
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> as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping. |
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In my experience if it starts swapping, that is much slower than just |
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using disk for /tmp in the first place. YMMV :) |
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