The 06/09/12, Dale wrote: > But this is what you guys are missing too. If you want to use tmpfs, > you have to have enough ram to begin with. Whether you use tmpfs or > not, you have to have enough ram to do the compile otherwise you start > using swap or it just crashes. Having ram is a prerequisite to using > tmpfs.
This is too minimal overview to get the point. Memory is not a static place. This is not a cake beeing shared once. Memory is living. See my other mail. > There is another flaw in your assumption above. I already had the > tarballs downloaded BEFORE even the first emerge. This is not a flaw in assumption. This is negligible. > What the people wanted to test is if putting portages work directory on > tmpfs would make emerge times faster. Come'on. We all understood your goal from the beginning. > Do we all admit that having portage on tmpfs does not make emerge times > faster yet? No. It depends on factors and underlying processes you claim they don't matter, which is wrong. They *might* be not relevant in some cases. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
