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.


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