[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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