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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:53:06
Message-Id: 4E356C05.1030800@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 >
3 > no, /var/tmp is very not important from a performance point of view - with the
4 > exception of /var/tmp/portage - and that is a candidate for tempfs.
5 >
6 >
7
8 Actually I recently tested that theory and it was faster when
9 /var/tmp/portage was on a hard drive instead of tmpfs. I do plan to
10 test this again tho. It doesn't make sense but that was the results.
11
12 Dale
13
14 :-) :-)