Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote:
Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at
/var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds
things up even more ;)
The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM,
as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping.
Actually, now that I check again, I see I've raised the size to 16G:
$ grep 16G /etc/fstab
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=16G 0 0
$ grep swap /etc/fstab
/dev/sda3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0
/dev/sdb3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0
/dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdX3 are 2GB and /dev/sdX7 are 20GB (probably far too much swap,
but disks are cheap).
Interesting. I didn't know it would go to swap when it started getting
full.
Considering a emerge -e world takes about 3 days on my old rig and only
takes about 10 hours on my new one, I already got a pretty good
increase. We are always looking for more tho ain't we? lol
Dale
:-) :-)
