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On Dienstag 07 Juli 2009, Frank Peters wrote: |
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> After reading through the thread on this list about the benefits |
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> of mounting PORTAGE_TMPDIR as tmpfs, I decided that I will be doing |
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> this mount from now on. My total RAM is 4G, but since I only "emerge |
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> world" about once per week, I can easily set aside temporarily 2G or more |
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> for this purpose. |
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> However, after doing some more reading, I find that some people recommend |
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> mounting tmpfs using the option nr_inodes=1M, while others just accept |
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> the default value for nr_inodes. |
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> To me, setting maximum inodes to 1M seems a bit high. Can emerge actually |
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> generate that many temporary files? Would it be safer and also avoid |
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> swapping to set nr_inodes=1M or is the default good enough?. |
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> Frank Peters |
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I am using tempfs for a long time now - and I never set nr_inodes. |
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tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs rw,size=4G 0 0 |
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tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=1G 0 0 |
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(I have 6gb ram) |