Minor speed tweak tip

[Shern, Benjamin J]

I'm also not sure where the performance peak would curve with regard to
memory size?  I believe tmpfs will swap when you run out of memory?  This
may or may not be faster than running purely from disk on systems with less
memory?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shern, Benjamin J 
> Sent: February 10, 2003 3:42 PM
> To: 'This is the primary mailing list for Lunar Linux!'
> Subject: RE: Minor speed tweak tip
> 
> 
> What do you mean?  It's not elegant, but my system is fairly 
> happy with
> those 3 commands in a /etc/init.d script?  I've thought about 
> making a cron
> entry to sync /usr/bin to /usr/bin_ram...
> I'm not real concerned if a couple binaries don't make it 
> into /usr/bin_ram,
> the path will find them still in /usr/bin.  The problems 
> could result from
> deleting something but having it still in your path.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: michalsc at email.uc.edu [mailto:michalsc at email.uc.edu] 
> > Sent: February 10, 2003 4:41 PM
> > To: This is the primary mailing list for Lunar Linux!
> > Subject: Re: Minor speed tweak tip
> > 
> > 
> > is there a better way to do this
> > see if you can get a more automated method of doing this?
> > that is stable :-P
> > 
> > hardkrash
> > 
> > Quoting "Shern, Benjamin J" <ShernBJ at LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>:
> > 
> > > For those of you with a decent size chunk of RAM:
> > > I've benchmarked 5-10% improvement in compile times by 
> > caching /usr/bin
> > > into
> > > memory.  The best way I've found to do this is:
> > > 
> > > mkdir /usr/bin_ram
> > > mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /usr/bin_ram
> > > cp -a /usr/bin/* /usr/bin_ram
> > > 
> > > Edit /etc/profile and put /usr/bin_ram before /usr/bin.
> > > 
> > > Only caveat is that you're mindful to re-mirror the tmpfs after
> > > removing
> > > packages.
> > > 
> > > Even on systems with less memory I'm guessing some 
> performance could
> > > be
> > > added during compiling by caching individual binaries such as gcc,
> > > binutils,
> > > make, install etc...
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > Ben
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Curious if anyone else has tested this and seem similar or better
> > > results...
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