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. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
