Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might >> find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a tmpfs >> for /var/tmp/portage. Note that depending on what you're building you might >> need a fairly large tmpfs, and it could trigger swapping. > > I agree, I use /dev/shm (4gigs) for my portage tmpdir and it has had a > bigger noticeable speed impact than ccache or niceness, and the > silence of zero disk activity (other than reading the distfiles in the > unpack stage and installing the compiled files) is nice, too. >
I would do this, however, my problem is (or was) RAM. Until yesterday I had only 1GB RAM in this laptop. Now I have doubled it which is the max it will support (it's 4 years old). I don't think 2GB is worth trying a tmpfs for. -- Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415
