The 06/09/12, Dale wrote: > Not quite. The theory is that if you put portages work directory on > tmpfs, then all the writes and such are done in ram which is faster.
No! This is too much simplistic view to explain what you see. In practice, _all_ the writes always happen in RAM whatever backend storage you use. The difference you could see is if there is not enough RAM for the kernel cache, it will have to wait for the backend storage. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
