On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:38PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to > create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage tmpdir > there. For the life of me, I can't find that thread anymore. Does anyone > do something similar to this? Are there noticable gains to be had. I > have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB ram. > > Thanks, > John
OK, this happens all the time. I search, can't find what I want, post a question, search again, and there it is. This is not the "thread" I was talking about, but it was right in front of me on the Gentoo Wiki. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs Does anyone have any "tips" on these "tips"? John > > -- > Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer.
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