2009/4/23 Previdi Roberto <[email protected]>:
> ewithoutu much effort. The remaining problem is that each package
> configure phase is very slow, i think because of the slow disk access
> (it must read/write on the microsd card..).
> so, is there any tested way to speed up everything? i used ext3 for
> the partition filesystem, so i think that is slowing down everything..
I did not digged deeply but ext3 for me is too slow, I returned to
ext2 without trying to tune it.
Using NFS for /var/tmp is a good idea as it eliminates dangerous
write/rewrite to SD card, but you cannot take the freerunner with you
for many hours/days/weeks!
I setupped a qemu-system-arm box on my server farm that compiles
binary packages for freerunner, it's slow but faster than freerunner,
when it finished I emerge -gK packages I need.
I hope I'll have the sheeva plug in the next month hoping I will be
able to compile very fast.
Ah! a problem with the qemubox is that I was not able to find an
updated kernel, so if you update glibc with new kernel-headers it will
happens strange things (eg. svn does not works anymore with neon).
Regards
Nicola
