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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:00:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAD4mYi+m7y76Z8UEk2Eb82ZHRgCWTntuRJC_cwgEk-QDMapkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170524053434.GA2656@anonymous>

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net> wrote:
> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
>

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM,  <gentoo-user@c-14.de> wrote:
> Either way, it'd be nice if someone actually benchmarked this.
>

I don't have exhaustive benchmarks but moving PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a
tmpfs makes builds at least an order of magnitude faster. For general
usage with /tmp you may or may not notice, but the lack of normal IO
overhead can only make it faster.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-24 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-24  5:16 [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-24  5:34 ` gentoo-user
2017-05-24  6:00   ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 17:05     ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 18:46       ` [gentoo-user] Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs] Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-25 19:16         ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-05-26  6:00         ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 18:34     ` [gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-24 19:30       ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 21:16         ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-24 22:40           ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25  6:34             ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 11:04               ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 12:23                 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 14:16                 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 16:06                   ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 16:28                     ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 16:41                       ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25  3:38         ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25  7:19           ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25  3:36       ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 17:00   ` R0b0t1 [this message]
2017-05-24  6:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Tselischev
2017-05-24  9:34 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24  9:43   ` gentoo-user
2017-05-24  9:54     ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 12:45   ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-25  4:45     ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-05-25  7:24       ` Mick
2017-05-25 15:46         ` Martin Vaeth
2017-05-25 22:36     ` [gentoo-user] " Kent Fredric
2017-05-28 10:07       ` Mick
2017-05-31  0:36         ` Kent Fredric
2017-05-31  7:33           ` Mick
2017-05-24 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-29 11:09 [gentoo-user] Kernel did not finding root partition Raphael MD
2017-05-29 11:19 ` Rasmus Thomsen
2017-05-29 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-05-29 18:07   ` Raphael MD
2017-05-29 18:16     ` Neil Bothwick
2017-05-29 19:42       ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-30  8:26         ` Peter Humphrey
2017-05-30 17:08           ` Raphael MD
2017-05-30 18:05             ` Mick
2017-05-30 19:28           ` Kai Krakow

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