On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 20:34 -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 8:43 AM, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > ..very offtopic but how are you all compiling stuff like
> firefox on a
> > ram disk. Or is 8GB of ram very che
080121 Caleb Cushing wrote:
> last time I checked open office only required ~2GB to compile
OO 2.3.1 needed 3,25 GB here, which was less than in the past IIRC.
You're correct that that is far more than any other pkg needs.
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On Jan 20, 2008 8:43 AM, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > ..very offtopic but how are you all compiling stuff like firefox on a
> > ram disk. Or is 8GB of ram very cheap suddenly?
>
not to mention, last time I checked open office only required ~2GB of space
Stefan de Konink wrote:
..very offtopic but how are you all compiling stuff like firefox on a
ram disk. Or is 8GB of ram very cheap suddenly?
Swap is your friend. The performance hit is the same as what you'd get
compiling on disk if pages need to be swapped out. The performance is
of cour
Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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> ...very offtopic but how are you all compiling stuff like firefox on a
> ram disk. Or is 8GB of ram very cheap suddenly?
Well, tmpfs is swap-backed if necessary. That's one of i
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Alec Warner schreef:
>> But who compiles firefox? :)
Probably everyone that noticed that the segmentation faults coming from
the precompiled versions are annoying?
Stefan
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> Duncan schreef:
> > Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:53 -0500:
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> > Obscure? It's the directory name (says
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Duncan schreef:
> Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:53 -0500:
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> Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/
> tmp on tmpfs).
...very offtopic bu
