On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:32:39 -0500 Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of | read/write.
Which is why you make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs mount. Or at least we do for sparc and mips stage and GRP builds... But then our build boxes have eight or more gigs of RAM in them :) | Show me any other way you can easily get the following | numbers from hdparm: | | /dev/md0: | Timing cached reads: 2868 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec | Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec You can quite easily beat that with a straight fibrechannel setup. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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