The 06/09/12, Dale wrote: > The point was > whether having portages work directory on tmpfs resulted in speed > increases. If you have portages work directory on tmpfs, of course it > uses ram. That's what tmpfs is. It's taking what might normally be put > on the disk and putting it in ram because ram is faster.
Please, understand that whithout tmpfs and a lot of RAM, the kernel _won't_ work with the files from the disk but with the files stored in the _kernel cache_ which IS RAM, too. This explains why you get this result: > The point is, > cache or not, having portages work directory on tmpfs doesn't result in > speed improvements as one would expect. Taking back your last sentence with precise sementic: The point is, /tmpfs cache (RAM)/ or /kernel cache (RAM)/, having portages work on tmpfs doesn't result in speed improvements. -- Nicolas Sebrecht