Request Validation of my Experience in buildworld

Dave Babb dcbdbis at comcast.net
Fri Sep 12 21:26:04 UTC 2014


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.
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