Sami Näätänen <sn...@keijukammari.fi> posted 200905070157.35952.sn...@keijukammari.fi, excerpted below, on Thu, 07 May 2009 01:57:35 +0300:
> The only thing that anoyingly invalidates my io buffers is listening > music. Maybe I should cut the size of my Music library heavily. :) Unless you're paying extra per-gig for inet, consider doing what I do much of the time, tune-in the icecast/shoutcast streams. =:^) You can even streamripper them if desired, but of course there you go with the cache busting again. =:^( > The real reason why I use tmpfs for the PM temp dir is not that it makes > compiles so much faster, but the fact that it will also ease the > unnecessary disk writes that building packages generate. This will > result in a longer life time for my disks. Well, if you spin-down your disks, possibly. If you don't, they're spinning anyway (tho the seeking is additional wear-and-tear). But depending on the I/O layout, keeping that extra data off the I/O bus can significantly improve system responsiveness, particularly for data that's not already in cache. That's the biggest difference I noted, other than roughly halving my emerge times. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
