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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HC3gI-0000hB-1X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:50:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0V0nRwt003515; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:49:27 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc15.comcast.net (rwcrmhc15.comcast.net [216.148.227.155]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0V0jLxZ031315 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:45:22 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (c-24-10-220-25.hsd1.ut.comcast.net[24.10.220.25]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20070131004520m1500l8give>; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:45:20 +0000 Message-ID: <45BFE6A6.9000009@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:26 -0700 From: Steve Dibb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061121 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 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] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles References: <200701301422.12957.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <20070130143551.6a4659bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200701301911.12421.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1170188306.350.2.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <20070130223914.09c7be21@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070130223914.09c7be21@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ecdce129-e95d-422f-9e1c-ab0f635f5c24 X-Archives-Hash: 065bc862adcc746f99ec8716132d16c3 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I >> compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. > > That's fine if you have 8GB of RAM... > > Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list