Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Advice on driving compile times down

[Daniel Goller]

thanks chris Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 00:47 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:24:48 -0800 Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | for those stuck on a journaled filesystem and cant reparition or | change for whatever | reasons look into using laptop-mode without using hdparm to spin down | the disks it will prevent small writes all the time for as long as you | tell it till memory is full and it has to write it to disk or the | timer hits and it does one massive write | instead of many small ones Yick. Then, when it *does* have to do a writethrough, there's a huge delay whilst it spins up the discs and writes all that nonsense to the drives. "without using hdparm to spin down the disks"

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