On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> >> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages >> >> work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the >> >> difference in compile times is just not there. >> > Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. > >> I cleared the cache between the compiles. This is the command I use: >> >> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > But you are still using the RAM as disk cache during the emerge, the data > doesn't stay around long enough to need to get written to disk with so > much RAM for cache.
Indeed. Try setting the mount to write-through to see the difference. -- :wq
