Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:15:08 -0500 From: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <79e2026f0601191215p117d78ebjbee2c4b710075154@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060119175224.GA71633@csh.rit.edu> References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> <86ek34d35f.fsf@xps.des.no> <17359.49899.183831.844670@bhuda.mired.org> <86k6cww445.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060119175224.GA71633@csh.rit.edu>
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I mounted part of RAM as such: mdmfs -s 500m md /mnt Then put WRKDIRPREFIX=3D/path/to/md in /etc/make.conf. It substantially reduces compile time by about 5-10 times. Thanx to all ur replies. -Ashok Shrestha On 1/19/06, Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:54:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > > > Will using a swap-backed disk change anything? > > > > Not really. > > > > > How about the best way to configure things to use two disks for the > > > compile? > > > > I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve. Unlike the base system, > > the ports tree does not use separate source and object directories. > > I think he is trying to get at a scenario where WRKDIR is on a seperate > disk from the one /usr/ports is on. > > To answer his question, assuming this is what he is going, for why not > just add a new physical disk to the system per the handbook, and set > WRKDIR to be where ever that disk is mounted. > > -- WXS > -- Ashok Shrestha
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