Re: Is it worth setting a RAMDISK with tmpfs?

"Bruce Dubbs" ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]>
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On 10/3/24 18:55, Abdul Latip ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
>> If I have some "extra memory" -- say 1 GB --, is it worth mounting a
> s/1/N/
> Just in case 1GB is not enough, how about N GB?
> Same questions: is it worth, and how to set chroot?

It depends on your definition of "worth".  A long time ago I built an entire LFS 
system on a ram disk.  The time savings was about 8%.  By far, most of the time 
building LFS is used by the cpu, not I/O.

   -- Bruce

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