On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > > > Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd > > and would be much less wear on your flash besides. Of course, some > > packages do take a while to build. I don't notice as much now that I > > do most of my building from cron, but it can be painful when you have > > dependency chains or soname changes. > > I hope this isn't more low grade density on my part but you do mean a > tmpfs on the vm right? >
I'm not Rich but I'm sure that's what he means. I have an SSD, and using a tmpfs for building speeds up builds significantly - probably 10-15%. This will mean that you'll need a significant amount of memory allocated to the VM. Mounting a tmpfs defaults to half of the memory available to the machine, which seems like a decent rule of thumb. If you give the VM 8GB of memory, the tmpfs will have 4GB of space. Alec
