From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 21:26:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D20B8602 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:26:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe2d:43:76:96:30:32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1238BFB for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:26:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id qMQT1o0031GXsucA3MS4Zk; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:26:04 +0000 Received: from Curly-Sr.dbis.net ([50.183.226.175]) by omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id qMS21o00W3nhSLa8UMS3fE; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:26:03 +0000 Message-ID: <541364E7.9060101@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:25:59 -0600 From: Dave Babb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request Validation of my Experience in buildworld References: <54135498.8080202@comcast.net> <54135C19.8080701@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <54135C19.8080701@my.hennepintech.edu> DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1410557164; bh=rnvxeUJK7g4o1dk2SozYvJPaUzCwIadbHdcY/KwHvgU=; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: Content-Type; b=Wt1ldxvbMBLjmy7tId0uVQFv34TE0JfA4Q/e/dPYUmxg1flWAe+NDTI9FIVS6VEzi TLrQH1aD+kJ4U7TOlNG7jXrHf/hAXVrqD85kIqkttO3rUsyOO0SkZIIQNn5Aa55Vyh G3RswPKCzXkNKY+abKq0HMlCalJ3sipUvWoTJOwObxYDD2Pr+OlPTtqn/0CUhZvg6P 6bxxWaBsc5C4SQmInVr6RVXcrX7O3xumFVBfU/E0ANu7wqmoBXsQDYMoXLSO7EhcGT xNUm26zrOG8yIEDDZ1c6YXUrf4O4DzIUlD4OrDBdcV48dzKMgeyKTpXa9fHFh4DUm5 vMxfbIeacvusg== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:26:04 -0000 Thank you for the reply... But what I was referring to, was the behavior of the system post rebuild, post reboot.....It seems much more perky... Sincerely and respectfully, Dave On 09/12/14 14:48, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.09.12 15:16, Dave Babb wrote: >> The WRKDIRPREFIX (from a answer I received in this mailing list), is so >> that my ports and kernel are built in ram and not to the SSD until they >> are complete. I have /usr/obj mounted in tmpfs.....I have 32Gb of >> ram....of which I only used 7% of tmpfs during any of the experiences >> below...... > ... >> Another dramatic drop in resources and another increase in performance. >> >> This experience was had across a desktop, and repeated on a ASUS laptop. >> >> Is this type of improvement typical? > Yes. Putting your WRKDIR in RAM eliminates the biggest bottleneck and puts > almost everything on the CPU, which is quite fast. You can use ccache to cache > objects and make future builds even faster by not rebuilding anything > unnecessarily. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >