Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:37:32 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com> Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <86ek34d35f.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> (Ashok Shrestha's message of "Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:45:30 -0500") References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com>
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Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com> writes: > I am curious to know if there is a way to compile a port such as X11 > or KDE faster. > > I know in Gentoo, you can mount a part of RAM and compile in that. > This substantially decreases the compile time. Reference: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone know how to do this in Freebsd? I doubt it would help. You get faster disk accesses, but significantly reduce the amount of memory available for the buffer cache. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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