Javier Martinez wrote: > El 24/7/25 a las 15:05, Michael escribió: >> On Thursday, 24 July 2025 13:56:05 British Summer Time Javier >> Martinez wrote: >>> To be more realistics you have to compite in equal conditions, >>> compiling >>> in ram for example. Maybe your harddisk is faster that his one. >> >> My OS is on an M.2 SSD and I also use a RAM tmpfs on this PC, but the >> way >> packages keep growing larger and larger I wonder how long before I >> need more >> RAM. ;-) >> >> >>> 8 dd if=/dev/urandom to ram would be fine IMO >> >> >> However, "... building packages in tmpfs is unlikely to provide any >> benefit on >> a modern system." >> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs >> > > It avoids to made your ultra fast SSD burn
That's the biggest reason I have portage's work directory on tmpfs. If I start having to do it on a disk because of a lack of memory, I'll do it on spinning rust to save my m.2 stick. Dale :-) :-) P. S. What is LTO and should I enable something? I already need to reboot soon for a newly rebuilt kernel. May as well do both.
