On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Thilo Manske wrote:

> AFAIK the wdc driver (and the wdc hardware) doesn't support DMA transfers, so
> you won't get them.
> 
> BTW: Do you use a memory filesystem for /tmp (or wherever TMPDIR points to)?
> If not this should really speed up the compilation since gcc won't write or
> read temporary files to/from the harddisk anymore.
> 
> So if memory is not the problem add something like this to /etc/fstab:
> /dev/wd0b /tmp  mfs     rw,async,noatime,nosuid,-s=20000
> (-s=20000 restricts the size to about 10MBytes (20k sectors), should be
> enough for kernel compilation.)
> -- 
> Dies ist Thilos Unix Signature! Viel Spass damit.

No, I do not have a memory filesystem mounted on /tmp. I will try this. Is
this what everybody does on non-pci ide hardware to speed up compiling? Or
is there still something horribly wrong with this machine?

--jon