Sujet : Re: Building Linux in /dev/shm
De : vallor (at) *nospam* cultnix.org (vallor)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 19. Apr 2024, 04:53:05
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
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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
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What do you think? Is it worth it to try building Linux
on a ramdisk?
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6.8.7 is out now, so I thought I'd try it:
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$ time -p make -j 32
[...]
real 432.09
user 11085.32
sys 2520.37
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That's with a "kitchen sink" build using a .config that
originally came from Linux Mint's "lowlatency" sources.
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(To set it up, I unpacked the tar file onto /dev/shm -- much
faster than if I'd tried to rsync the unpacked sources.)
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After the build:
$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 126G 23G 103G 19% /dev/shm
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(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.)
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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.
-- -v