Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

In /etc/fstab I have (this is a diskless atom based PXE system):

shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec                             0 0

tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs           size=1250M,mode=1777,noatime,auto               0 0
tmpfs                   /var/lock       tmpfs           size=10m,noatime,auto                           0 0
tmpfs                   /var/run        tmpfs           size=10m,noatime,auto                           0 0
tmpfs                   /var/cache/hald tmpfs           size=10m,noatime,auto                           0 0


and in /etc/conf.d/local.start:
mkdir /tmp/portage
mkdir /tmp/portage/tmp
mkdir /tmp/portage/distfiles

and it /etc/make.conf

DISTDIR="/tmp/portage/distfiles"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR='/tmp/portage/tmp'
PORTDIR='/tmp/portage/'
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/"
PKGDIR="/tmp/portage/packages/"


It works fine except for gcc where with 3G of ram, everything in tmpfs
and swap over nfs works randomly due to running out of ram.

BillK




On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 00:55 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:27:54PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> 
> >   Looks like I can tweak stuff in the ebuild via "mozconfig_annotate"
> > lines, and then...
> > 
> > ebuild firefox-3.6.9.ebuild manifest
> > emerge firefox
> 
>   Something isn't working.  I put in
> mozconfig_annotate '' --disable-pango
> mozconfig_annotate '' --disable-oji --disable-mathml
> 
> into the ebuild (a copy in my local overlay) and ebuild-manifested it.
> Portage said it was building from the overlay, but "about:buildconfig"
> shows them as being enabled.  I have been able to
> --disable-necko-wifi (WTF is *THAT* in a browser, fercryingoutloud?).
> 
>   Any ideas?  A long time ago, in a place far away, I used to build
> Mozilla 0.9x "the hard way", because the downloadable binary was
> painfully slow on my machine.  And later on Phoenix 0.9x (remember
> that?).  I've forgotten most of what I learned, but I can follow the
> instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Simple_Firefox_build
> I have a couple of questions before proceeding...
> 1) what do I have to set to force all files to be installed in /opt or
> in /usr/local ?
> 2) I've got 8 gigs of ram.  How do I force the compiler to use /dev/shm
> as the scratch directory ?
> 

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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
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