Mike Massonnet wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:55:51PM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote: > >> Mike Massonnet wrote: >> >>> What about using the directory /dev/shm (if it exists) to do the >>> compilation? For the record, it is a filesystem in RAM which is >>> noticeably faster than hard-disk access. >>> >> Making a thumbnail for postscript is very easy, I just call >> ImageMagick's convert program - there is no middle stage that I could >> place on /dev/shm, if that's what you meant? If anybody knows of a >> faster means of generating a thumbnail of postscript please say. >> > > You can use a tmpfs to generate tex thumbnails for instance :)
But before every thumbnail is generated, I'd have to mount -t tmpfs none /tmp/tmpfs and then unmount it at the end... I need to be root to do that. I've just tried it - no improvement in speed, surprisingly. _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
