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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Building Linux in /dev/shm Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:39:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 59 Message-ID: <uvts5r$2mc88$4@dont-email.me> References: <uvpmng$1mntq$4@dont-email.me> <uvrbur$2ae33$1@dont-email.me> <uvsmah$2mc88$1@dont-email.me> <uvtrkq$312kp$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:39:08 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36b71613ccf4070cbd5a06532989882e"; logging-data="2830600"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+mAOR2ZsOyN1Fj2nOND62h" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; 6a11104 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cwhTTRH6KJ6koKd+u4t2kC82G0E= X-Face: \}2`P"_@pS86<'EM:'b.Ml}8IuMK"pV"?FReF$'c.S%u9<Q#U*4QO)$l81M`{Q/n XL'`91kd%N::LG:=*\35JS0prp\VJN^<s"b#bff@fA7]5lJA.jn,x_d%Md$,{.EZ Bytes: 3194 On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:30:02 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in <uvtrkq$312kp$1@dont-email.me>: > vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 02:53 this Friday (GMT): >> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in >><uvrbur$2ae33$1@dont-email.me>: >> >>> 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? >> >> Some distros might do that. Linux Mint doesn't, and I don't advise it. > > > $ findmnt /tmp > > TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /tmp tmpfs tmpfs > rw,nosuid,nodev,size=8043524k,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64 > > Mine does at least. Interesting. What distribution are you using? My concern would be filling it up, but that's probably just my "old school" thinking from back in the day when computers had much less memory. -- -v