Re: howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-06-08 Thread Dave & Diane
I too would be interested in exploring this since I run cygwin and gcc on a laptop and the drive is fairly slow. I would like to move /usr/include and /usr/src/x to a ramdrive so that access is faster. Before working on a project I would simply rsync the files between the ramdrive and the

Re: howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-05-29 Thread Hans Horn
Brian Dessent wrote: Hans Horn wrote: Could somebody give me a few pointers as to how to use/configure a ramdrive to speed-up cygwin. There was a posting a few weeks ago (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00121.html) in which Brian Dessent mentions that he is using a ramdrive for buil

Re: howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Hans Horn wrote: > Could somebody give me a few pointers as to how to use/configure a > ramdrive to speed-up cygwin. > > There was a posting a few weeks ago > (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00121.html) in which Brian > Dessent mentions that he is using a ramdrive for building gcc. >

howto use ramdrive to speed-up cygwin

2007-05-29 Thread Hans Horn
Group, Could somebody give me a few pointers as to how to use/configure a ramdrive to speed-up cygwin. There was a posting a few weeks ago (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00121.html) in which Brian Dessent mentions that he is using a ramdrive for building gcc. Brian, would you