On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:40:08 +0800, Amankwah wrote: > >> Maybe the only solution is that move the portage tree to HDD?? > > Or tmpfs if you rarely reboot or have a fast enough connection to your > preferred portage mirror.
There has been a proposal to move it to squashfs, which might potentially also help. The portage tree is 700M uncompressed, which seems like a bit much to just leave in RAM all the time. Mine is on an SSD, but the SMART attributes aren't well-documented so I have no idea what the erase count or WAF is - just the LBA written count. Rich
