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 1QCT0k-0004ux-1F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:43:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79CCA1C048; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4899D1C048 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so181779gxk.40 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:42:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SClw8L1vL4sIz+DYeI2ntfKobUdn5hN81CN2w6umQbg=; b=mi0L/mMQA60EW8bnYQrwyW61A4+lk+uCPXs75q38Lu5sxN913axJIn0J2plBR8twhP oWCLzRw43LCWngdz2lEQbnCHzBr1pOg20C7VTfklKAeMOTWTP8xhh6tII7w/10Ih9uFY sehI4N6SFtrZudBW3olmX6hbshTHf0eWmdf+I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Q8vKIV3bClM6njeSoli+x+7PjGayHiP0pwjgQhBhVV8tnTi5SP01euV+5J1x6PFuRJ cOD8dbl8HwIg3MTsr8WkaLYpeTIA1imbwktkz+OHuZB1FcIwQxRyvOoRMrhCTyb6+3/H HEhfca+FzuADmoGSdhf+obwNi5DtsrjAits8A= Received: by 10.151.6.4 with SMTP id j4mr6282838ybi.163.1303288943622; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-52.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n8sm706582anc.35.2011.04.20.01.42.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DAE9C65.7020506@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:42:13 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! References: <201104180228.59487.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4DAE128A.1080405@gmail.com> <20110420073431.D5D2E292F@data.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <20110420073431.D5D2E292F@data.antarean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ed966a1569dc3176a15149170bcc7714 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 :-) :-)