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- From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>
- 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: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:57:55 +0400 (MSD)
Actually, 256 MB is more than enough, even for XFree.
I'm the witness.
Glenn Shannon <warl0k AT lvcm.com>:
> I believe the choice to use tmpfs was because
compiling in memory is
> faster.
>
> Unfortunately for those of us who have fast enough
machines, the benefit
> of tmpfs is minimal. For those that don't actually
have 1G of RAM to
> toss around like a ragdoll on May Day, it slows
things down as it has to
> swap stuff out to disk which is less efficient than
using the disk as a
> medium for compilation.
>
> 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.
>
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices
, (continued)
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Julian v. Bock, 07/22/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/23/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Aaron Brice, 07/23/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Robin, 07/23/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Eric Sandall, 07/23/2002
-
RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Aaron Brice, 07/23/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Robin, 07/23/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Dufflebunk, 07/23/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] tmpfs (was License Choices), Andrew Stitt, 07/23/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] tmpfs (was License Choices), Andrew Stitt, 07/23/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Glenn Shannon, 07/22/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Glenn Shannon, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Julian v. Bock, 07/23/2002
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