From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuZgw-0006eK-D2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:46:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IHhv9j011322; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:43:57 GMT Received: from smtp805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IHSD5j002318 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:28:13 GMT Received: (qmail 78971 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 17:29:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wadham.oxford.ac.uk) (jmconveyors@86.133.28.240 with plain) by smtp805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2005 17:29:03 -0000 Received: by wadham.oxford.ac.uk (nbSMTP-0.99) for uid 1000 david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:24:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:23:59 +0100 From: David Morgan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations Message-ID: <20050718172359.GA12054@valinor.dynalias.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050718170738.GA5538@may.frognet.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050718170738.GA5538@may.frognet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: ba1dd6cd-761a-4c9e-b7b3-6551b85f837b X-Archives-Hash: 040d0ca8dfa9d70703b9b4f14f36e685 On 13:07 Mon 18 Jul , John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to > create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage tmpdir > there. For the life of me, I can't find that thread anymore. Does anyone > do something similar to this? Are there noticable gains to be had. I > have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB ram. > > Thanks, > John > There was a thread about ways of speeding up compilation on gentoo-dev (including what you mentioned) a while ago. Good look compiling OOo with $PORTAGE_TMPDIR mounted in ram though ;) Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list