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On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >>> I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds |
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> >>> that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of |
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> >>> memory too, and tmpfs is using it all. |
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> >> In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and |
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> >> found that using a tmpfs was actually slower. |
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> > Yes, but that was Dale and nothing works as it should for him :-O |
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> That one did. Someone on the forums posted the same results. It |
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> doesn't make sense but . . . . |
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It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would otherwise |
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be used for compilation and filesystem caches. |
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