On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:

> >>> I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
> >>> that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
> >>> memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
> >>>          
> >> In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and
> >> found that using a tmpfs was actually slower.
> >>        
> > Yes, but that was Dale and nothing works as it should for him :-O

> That one did.  Someone on the forums posted the same results.  It 
> doesn't make sense but . . . .

It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would otherwise
be used for compilation and filesystem caches.


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