Jerry, --- Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I was just wondering if there are special tricks > people do > that compile A LOT on centos? Do RAM disks help or > something else I dont > about that minimizes your compile time? I presently > have and AMD x2 > 4800+ with 2GIG ram. > > Just curious if I can reduce any more time out of my > compiles. Watch out for background processes that steal resources: Move /etc/cron.daily/ mlocate prelink to /etc/cron.weekly Remove /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis and let it only run weekly (its already in weekly) Open /etc/updatedb and tune it for your system: add ntfs-3g or vfat to prunefs If you have any mock partitions, add that to prunepath -- Mark My C5 repo with RequestTracker http://www.tlviewer.org/centos ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ