On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:33:04PM -0500, Paul A. Houle wrote:
> money to spend on building a compile system, I'd seriously consider
> getting a few 9GB SCSI drives off ebay and using them for a temp directory
> to do compiles on.
At current prices its even more effective IMHO to get a box with 2-4GB of RAM and
just load the entire compile environment into ramdisk, cvs checkout the
devel code off disk into ramdisk and build in ram
That's actually what I'm doing too with DAR. I use a bind-mounted /dev/shm
as my builddir.
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