Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???
- From: des@xxxxxx (Dag-Erling Smørgrav)
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:37:32 +0100
Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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