On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: > >> Kfir Lavi wrote: > >>> I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. > >>> I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). > >>> I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. > >>> Thats how I keep my SSD ;) > >>> > >>> Kfir > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Poison [BLX] > >>> Joshua M. Murphy > >> > >> I got 16Gbs in my rig and I mounted portages work directory on tmpfs, > >> it > >> was actually slower. That is likely a good idea to keep from wearing > >> out the SSD but it doesn't seem to make anything compile faster. > > > > Strange, it actually got faster on mine when doing that. > > Did you mount with "noatime"? :) > > > > -- > > Joost > > Yep. It actually took a few seconds longer compiling in memory. I > thought that was weird to tho. It doesn't make much sense to me. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Hmm... Will be doing some timing-tests then.... Openoffice is a good one for that ;) -- Joost
