Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and
found that using a tmpfs was actually slower.
Yes, but that was Dale and nothing works as it should for him :-O
That one did. Someone on the forums posted the same results. It
doesn't make sense but . . . .
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would otherwise
be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left. That is more than
enough to compile even OOo with no space problems.
Thoughts?
Dale
:-) :-)
