From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 16:11:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543D116A41F for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:11:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@i13i.com) Received: from admin.i13i.com (admin.i13i.com [66.90.92.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C420243D46 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:11:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@i13i.com) Received: (qmail 7749 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2006 16:32:36 -0000 Received: from mail.i13i.com (HELO webmail.i13i.com) (208.53.187.133) by admin.i13i.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2006 16:32:36 -0000 Received: from 195.139.252.5 (proxying for 62.92.188.12) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chris@i13i.com) by webmail.i13i.com with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:32:36 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <35403.195.139.252.5.1137342756.squirrel@webmail.i13i.com> In-Reply-To: <43CA6E89.3090605@cytexbg.com> References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> <43CA6E89.3090605@cytexbg.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:32:36 -0600 (CST) From: chris@i13i.com To: "Niki Denev" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Ashok Shrestha , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:11:12 -0000 you can mount a small memory filesystem think it's called mbfs or something and change the work dir to that then you should be able to compile KDE using ram instead of the HD > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ashok Shrestha wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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? >> >> -- >> Ashok Shrestha > > You can also take a look at devel/ccache and devel/distcc from ports. > > - --niki > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDym6JHNAJ/fLbfrkRAuV5AKCw01ZCh5/wmc5cBxXsY2NaOGCR6ACfc1VN > 7Tx/hA8eUmS65P0Nf0tvF3Y= > =uOVv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >