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 1DuZzr-0001Uz-P6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:05:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6II1wDo016472; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:01:58 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IHrpBu016215 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:53:51 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so943729nzb for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:54:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aCpElEVByoWiknxelOKP6JaVQyjjnwtvVKJWx6pkItx5cof1ZCzHeDUClcVTQCOWVsov6i40NiY3YAqesxTW0Y2p9wRrJGaF4TA01F+ytDjDmxgaxY1jq6Nlpbw2+P6G1YNIWyBO67DvpvIGYNnQH38V9tIfNMPaNcytoocwSCo= Received: by 10.36.36.15 with SMTP id j15mr3571095nzj; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id r1sm338812nzd.2005.07.18.10.54.19; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42DBECFD.5060506@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:55:09 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations References: <20050718170738.GA5538@may.frognet.net> <20050718171913.GB5538@may.frognet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050718171913.GB5538@may.frognet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2ccd6577-68e8-4553-a34b-6eb82ddef841 X-Archives-Hash: be0e961eacfcbffb4109a85de3c5e806 John J. Foster wrote: > > OK, this happens all the time. I search, can't find what I want, post a > question, search again, and there it is. This is not the "thread" I was > talking about, but it was right in front of me on the Gentoo Wiki. > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone have any "tips" on these "tips"? > I sincerely doubt that this technique is worth the trouble because the Linux virtual memory system will automatically cache frequently accessed files in ram. The tmpfs will eliminate filesystem overhead and will certainly result in a reduction of total build time. However, I'd go with Bruno's recommendation and just put -pipe in the cflags. For builds that work well in parallel, which most large builds do, distcc is a great way to speed things up. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list