Slowly going faster

An old/slow gentoo box:

/etc/conf.d/rc:svcmount="yes"

sticks the service deps into a tmpfs

Filesystem   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
svcdir       2.0M  188K  1.9M  10% /var/lib/init.d

Any speedup isn't noticable, but its one step closer to running root fs out of a pseudo-SSD
(pcmcia memory card adapter + old SD card).  Going ro is painful from quick glance.

Anyway usage rises to 344k on a reasonably well configured box, so 2MB is fine.

tmpfs is a real gain for emerges with an fstab including:

shm  /dev/shm  tmpfs  noatime,size=4G,nr_inodes=200k  0 0

and linking /var/tmp to /dev/shm - 4GB is comfortable for building openoffice.