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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by biglost on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:37PM (#26021555)
With gentoo i use tmpfs and it works really well
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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by bombcar on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:39AM (#26024045)
Do you have details on how to enable this?
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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by account42 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:40AM (#26026254)
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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