Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 19:06, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb James Broadhead:
>> On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy <permeakra@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>>> Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage,
>>>> once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD
>>>> Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage.
>>
>> You would have to profile this, but I imagine that the best approach
>> would be to compile in a RAM disk and copy. I think that you're
>> probably trying to optimise the wrong part of this problem.
>>
>> As for ext3/ext4, the improvements to fsck alone make ext4 the FS of
>> choice between the two.
>>
>> JB
>>
>
> Pandu is building a firewall. Putting a ton of RAM in it just for the
> sake for system updates is plain overkill and -- depending on his IaaS
> provider -- pretty expensive.
>

Indeed. If I need more RAM, they will only sell a complete package of
vCPU+RAM+Storage, which will then be merged with my current package.

They do offer Storage-only add-on packages, though. But that's beside the point.

Rgds,
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