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<P><FONT SIZE=2>More importantly, mount your dev filesys with atimes disabled and ext3 indexing on.<BR>
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Use tmpfs for /tmp, /usr/tmp, /var/tmp, it uses swappable ram filesys which helps a lot too. Make sure nothing gets put in those tmp dirs that needs to persist across a reboot and limit the max size each can take to 1/2 total memory.<BR>
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More memory...<BR>
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As far as background jobs go, reschedule them for day time hours when your asleep ;-)<BR>
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-Ross<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: centos-bounces@centos.org <centos-bounces@centos.org><BR>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><BR>
Sent: Thu Nov 29 18:26:56 2007<BR>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5<BR>
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Jerry,<BR>
--- Jerry Geis <geisj@pagestation.com> wrote:<BR>
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> I was just wondering if there are special tricks<BR>
> people do<BR>
> that compile A LOT on centos? Do RAM disks help or<BR>
> something else I dont<BR>
> about that minimizes your compile time? I presently<BR>
> have and AMD x2<BR>
> 4800+ with 2GIG ram.<BR>
><BR>
> Just curious if I can reduce any more time out of my<BR>
> compiles.<BR>
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Watch out for background processes that steal<BR>
resources:<BR>
Move /etc/cron.daily/ mlocate<BR>
prelink<BR>
to /etc/cron.weekly<BR>
<BR>
Remove /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis and let it only<BR>
run weekly (its already in weekly)<BR>
<BR>
Open /etc/updatedb and tune it for your system:<BR>
add ntfs-3g or vfat to prunefs<BR>
<BR>
If you have any mock partitions, add that to<BR>
prunepath<BR>
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--<BR>
Mark<BR>
My C5 repo with RequestTracker<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.tlviewer.org/centos">http://www.tlviewer.org/centos</A><BR>
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