Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:16:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on fast make world... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971104171512.3158B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199711040917.EAA00368@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Silly question: How do I do that? Last I tried I ended in a panic... > > How large? Where to mount? /tmp or /var/tmp? I foreget ... > > > > Without these improvements, we are at 102 minutes end-to-end. Let's go for > > sub-hour make world! > > > > This is my fstab entry. You'll also have to add the MFS option to the kernel. > The -s param should be smaller than your amount of swap. To add -pipe, just > edit your /etc/make.conf file and add -pipe to your CFLAGS entry. > > swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=210000,-b=16384,-f=2048 0 0 Ok, this is probably a silly question, but here it goes. What exactly is MFS? Is it akin to a ramdisk? Or is it just swap space that's emulating a drive slice? If it's realy out of swap space, how would that actually improve performance? - alex
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