On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:52 PM, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However, it probably won't be sooner than > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask > world --exclude chromium > fails because of the "--exclude chromium" part :), as I have already compiled > the recent vertion of chromium with /var/tmp/portage on the hard disk and > it took more than 24 hours on my old AMD Athlon X2 with j2 option. :( >
Honestly I doubt that tmpfs will make much difference since this is probably CPU-bound. Using the jumbo-build option probably will help a lot more - but it will use even more RAM and might make a tmpfs impractical for you. I bet that jumbo-build on a spinning disk will be faster for you than not using that option on a tmpfs. But, there is only one way to be sure. -- Rich
