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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Building Linux in /dev/shm
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:50:03 -0000 (UTC)
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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 23:41 this Wednesday (GMT):
> $ df -h .
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> tmpfs           126G  542M  126G   1% /dev/shm
>
> What do you think?  Is it worth it to try building Linux
> on a ramdisk?
>
> 6.8.7 is out now, so I thought I'd try it:
>
> $ time -p make -j 32
> [...]
> real 432.09
> user 11085.32
> sys 2520.37
>
> That's with a "kitchen sink" build using a .config that
> originally came from Linux Mint's "lowlatency" sources.
>
> (To set it up, I unpacked the tar file onto /dev/shm -- much
> faster than if I'd tried to rsync the unpacked sources.)
>
> After the build:
> $ df -h .
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> tmpfs           126G   23G  103G  19% /dev/shm
>
> (Of course, now that I've done this stunt, I'm rsync'ing
> the tree onto my NAS, so I'll have it after the reboot.)
>
> And there you go: doing Linux stunts, so you don't have to.


Isn't /tmp usually mounted as a ramdisk?
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