Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:52 PM, gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> However, it probably won't be sooner than
> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask
> world --exclude chromium
> fails because of the "--exclude chromium" part :), as I have already compiled
> the recent vertion of chromium with /var/tmp/portage on the hard disk and
> it took more than 24 hours on my old AMD Athlon X2 with j2 option. :(
>

Honestly I doubt that tmpfs will make much difference since this is
probably CPU-bound.

Using the jumbo-build option probably will help a lot more - but it
will use even more RAM and might make a tmpfs impractical for you.  I
bet that jumbo-build on a spinning disk will be faster for you than
not using that option on a tmpfs.  But, there is only one way to be
sure.

-- 
Rich