rTorrent: Install faster with ramdisk #975
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This commit mounts a 1 GB tmpfs ram disk for rtorrent installations. Four gigabytes of system memory is required. Increases installation speed and efficiency. It was required to refactor the build paths. The ram disk needs to be mounted in a non conflicting location. Also, it creates a new `rtorrent.log` file for the rtorrent installation. The log file is written to the ram disk, then copied to the logs folder afterwards. This resolves the megabyte log file problem with multiple installs and reduces disk writes.
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This commit mounts a 1 GB tmpfs ram disk for rtorrent installations. Four gigabytes of system memory is required. Increases installation speed and efficiency.
It was required to refactor the build paths. The ram disk needs to be mounted in a non conflicting location.
Changes were tested on an 8 core Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VPS with 16GB of RAM. rTorrent source 0.9.8 was built. The entire installation process of rTorrent (from start to finish) with
box install rtorrenttook 82 seconds. Faster install times are anticipated with dedicated resources. There was significant shell overhead with the virtualized environment slowing things down.