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  • From: Jon Svendsen <jon-sven AT frisurf.no>
  • To: Glenn Shannon <warl0k AT lvcm.com>
  • Cc: "'Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ'" <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices
  • Date: 22 Jul 2002 07:23:08 +0200

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 00:40, Glenn Shannon wrote:
> For the 4 or 5 people in the world who are on the right machines for
> tmpfs compiling (medium range machines with 768+M of RAM) tmpfs gives
> them a .05% increase in speed in return for its hefty requirement.

I'll do this one more time ;)

1) A gigabyte of RAM will be commonplace pretty soon.

2) The swap requirement is not "hefty". The space you allocate for swap
is space you would need to keep available for compilation anyway.

3) One of the primary benefits of tmpfs compilation is not speed, but
reduction of filesystem fragmentation and strain. The huge amount of
tiny writes necessary to keep a system up to date (for years) can
significantly rape the fs. Compiling in tmpfs avoids that.

4) Once more, there is no hefty requirement. You are not using any more
space than you would need to use anyway.





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