Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs
Date:	Wed, 24 May 2017 17:00:42
Message-Id:	`CAAD4mYi+m7y76Z8UEk2Eb82ZHRgCWTntuRJC_cwgEk-QDMapkQ@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs by gentoo-user@c-14.de

1	On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> wrote:
2	> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
3	>
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5	On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM, <gentoo-user@××××.de> wrote:
6	> Either way, it'd be nice if someone actually benchmarked this.
7	>
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9	I don't have exhaustive benchmarks but moving PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a
10	tmpfs makes builds at least an order of magnitude faster. For general
11	usage with /tmp you may or may not notice, but the lack of normal IO
12	overhead can only make it faster.