[SM-Discuss] tmpfs
Ari Steinberg
ari.steinberg at stanford.edu
Thu Jul 25 13:11:45 EDT 2002
Quoting "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli at pisem.net>:
> I still think tempfs is a very elegant solution to many
> problems (disk clean-up, /tmp using my otherwise unused
> most of the time swap partition, performance still
> there), but that's not the point. Why are we discussing
> what to change when there's a whole slew of sorcery
> functions to implement to be feature-complete for 1.0?
>
> --Sergey.
Werd.
The important thing is that tempfs works. For those that are annoyed
at the thought of having to create a large swap partition, remember
that you don't have to! You can create a temporary swap file,
instructions have been around for a long time now (unfortunately I
don't know them offhand, but I'd bet they're somewhere in the wiki).
Performance-wise, 99% of the time spent compiling large programs is a
part of the actual compilation process and has nothing to do with the
overhead in cast. If you are fed up with compile times, maybe you
should go back to a binary distro - it's an inherent problem with using
the source.
-Ari
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