From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QCRwQ-0004Ik-2G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:35:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C61E1C013; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318C61C013 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.144] (helo=smtp13.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCRuz-0001cR-B3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:33:45 +0200 Received: from 5ed02730.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.48] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp13.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCRuv-0002eJ-ND for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:33:41 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D2E292F for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:34:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WqPwOt6gnfIQ for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:34:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 914BE1135 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:34:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:33:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta4 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4DAE128A.1080405@gmail.com> References: <201104180228.59487.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4DAE128A.1080405@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20110420073431.D5D2E292F@data.antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QCRuv-0002eJ-ND X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.971, vereist 5, BAYES_20 -0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e8f22d4ba381accb339c29470ba9c04b On Tuesday 19 April 2011 17:54:02 Dale wrote: > Kfir Lavi wrote: > > I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. > > I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). > > I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. > > Thats how I keep my SSD ;) > > > > Kfir > > > > -- > > Poison [BLX] > > Joshua M. Murphy > > I got 16Gbs in my rig and I mounted portages work directory on tmpfs, it > was actually slower. That is likely a good idea to keep from wearing > out the SSD but it doesn't seem to make anything compile faster. Strange, it actually got faster on mine when doing that. Did you mount with "noatime"? :) -- Joost