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biglost on Feb 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines ...

With gentoo i use tmpfs and it works really well

bombcar on Feb 4, 2021 [–]

Do you have details on how to enable this?

account42 on Feb 4, 2021 | [–]

Just mount a ramdisk over your portage TMPDIR (default /var/tmp/portage). You will need a decent amount of ram though for larger packages like LLVM. Disabling debug symbols will reduce the required space a bit.

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