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Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can |
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>> put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left. That is more than enough to |
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>> compile even OOo with no space problems. |
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>> Thoughts? |
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> This is Gentoo, where all us users are reputed to spend their days |
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> passing around benchmarks of "emerge -e world", right? |
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> Try it. :) |
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Yep, we do that. Mine is about 12 hours. I would post it but I got a |
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Blocker instead. I'll work on that and post it later. lol |
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Point is, I have more than enough memory to test the theory that putting |
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portage's work directory on tmpfs is faster/slower than a hard drive. I |
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tested it and it really didn't make much difference. Most of the time |
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it was slower but a couple times it was faster but only by a few seconds. |
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I guess drives are just a lot faster nowadays or at least fast enough. |
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I dunno. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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