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 1QCTgm-00069n-UF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:27:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A501E04ED; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE261E04ED for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.152] (helo=smtp20.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCTf8-0005jA-9G for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:25:30 +0200 Received: from 5ed02730.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.48] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp20.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCTf6-0006y7-OT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:25:28 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AF730E9 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:26:19 +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 3uuNeVUOpXc3 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:26:19 +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 110221135 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:26:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:25:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta4 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4DAE9C65.7020506@gmail.com> References: <201104180228.59487.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110420073431.D5D2E292F@data.antarean.org> <4DAE9C65.7020506@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: <20110420092619.48AF730E9@data.antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QCTf6-0006y7-OT X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.928, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, 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: 5ef93f838e7001886c5cbe9b587e2a4a On Wednesday 20 April 2011 03:42:13 Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > 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 > > Yep. It actually took a few seconds longer compiling in memory. I > thought that was weird to tho. It doesn't make much sense to me. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Hmm... Will be doing some timing-tests then.... Openoffice is a good one for that ;) -- Joost