On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:35:16PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > As I said, I was watching firefox being compiled. All the preliminary stages > had been completed by then. All the source code should have been in memory, > but I can't say the same for any other libraries. On the other hand, just > how much time is needed to load all the development libraries needed for > this compilation?
Not necessarily - gcc pulls in quite a range of system headers, which may be cached by the kernel less aggressively than the other stuff you're keeping in RAM. I'd recommend running iostat (in the sysstat ebuild) to see at least what kind of IO is going on here. You may also want to experiment with remounting e.g., /usr/include on a tmpfs. Dustin -- [email protected] mailing list
