On 13:07 Mon 18 Jul , John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to > create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage tmpdir > there. For the life of me, I can't find that thread anymore. Does anyone > do something similar to this? Are there noticable gains to be had. I > have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB ram. > > Thanks, > John >
There was a thread about ways of speeding up compilation on gentoo-dev (including what you mentioned) a while ago. Good look compiling OOo with $PORTAGE_TMPDIR mounted in ram though ;) Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
