lightspeed emerging without any tools..

[batistuta]

I know that this was mentioned 1000 times before, but after I've tried it today I was so impressed, that I thought about mentioning it again for all people new with Gentoo. I even think that the installation manual should say something about it.

tmpfs provides a way dinamically allocate RAM for your /tmp or /var/tmp partition. You can enable it and disable it as you wish on the fly, and it dramatically reduces your compilation time (at least for my system) by minimizing the I/O access.
Check it out

[irondog]

Yep. Tmpfs rules. It doesn't claim free memory if it isn't in use. It's also swappable, which means it won't waste your free memory if tmpfs is populated with garbage.
You might want to add this to /etc/fstab

[pussi]

Wow! Thanks for the tip.

Finally I was able to get rid of the ccache ;)

[PaveQ]

[pussi]

[ThamanX]

I have 512 MB RAM installed in my System. How many RAM shoulde i use for it ??

Could it be that this Drive gets full ?? How can i prevent me from this ??

[lnxz]

You should make a script that mounts a tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage before the emerge and unmounts it afterwards, because some packages will be larger than your ram space, which will cause the compilation to be terminated.
The script should probably empty /var/tmp/portage after each subsequent emerge, too (if you compile several packages at once).

[tomk]

Merged from here.
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[Sheepdogj15]

in case anyone is still curious, tmpfs will swap out if you run out of RAM, whereas ramfs won't. otherwise the theory is the same: dynamically changes in size with how much data is in there, you specify a max size, etc.
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[Naib]