Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:25:59 -0600 From: Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request Validation of my Experience in buildworld Message-ID: <541364E7.9060101@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <54135C19.8080701@my.hennepintech.edu> References: <54135498.8080202@comcast.net> <54135C19.8080701@my.hennepintech.edu>
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Thank you for the reply... But what I was referring to, was the behavior of the system post rebuild, post reboot.....It seems much more perky... Sincerely and respectfully, Dave On 09/12/14 14:48, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.09.12 15:16, Dave Babb wrote: >> The WRKDIRPREFIX (from a answer I received in this mailing list), is so >> that my ports and kernel are built in ram and not to the SSD until they >> are complete. I have /usr/obj mounted in tmpfs.....I have 32Gb of >> ram....of which I only used 7% of tmpfs during any of the experiences >> below...... > ... >> Another dramatic drop in resources and another increase in performance. >> >> This experience was had across a desktop, and repeated on a ASUS laptop. >> >> Is this type of improvement typical? > Yes. Putting your WRKDIR in RAM eliminates the biggest bottleneck and puts > almost everything on the CPU, which is quite fast. You can use ccache to cache > objects and make future builds even faster by not rebuilding anything > unnecessarily. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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