-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > If you have lots of memory (2 gigs or better, 4 gigs is nice, I have 8 > but that's overkill), strongly consider setting up your PORTAGE_TMPDIR > (/var/tmp by default) on tmpfs.
Actually, as long as you have enough swap your RAM doesn't really matter. In the worst case it just swaps to disk, which is what it would be doing anyway if you didn't have a tmpfs. Even if only 10% of the short-lived files didn't make it to disk it would be a huge savings in IO waits. Also, consider using ionice (from schedutils I think) - it lets you schedule IO the way nice schedules CPU. It can have a big impact if you have a lot of disk churn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGszhsG4/rWKZmVWkRAhwIAKCMAIhQqVaaPrHi3IIbigc3tpVHSQCgtsEg HDrQL97HsW8c5NmVKy+24jc= =tmSA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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