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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:22:17
Message-Id: 4D720EB0.5060507@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 03/05/2011 12:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alex Alexander<wired@g.o> wrote:
5 >>>> Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an
6 >>>> hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5.
7 >>>
8 >>> Clearly your definition of modern doesn't include my server... :)
9 >>> Just checked and the last build clocked in at 192 minutes. I need to
10 >>> make sure I have /var/tmp/portage symlinked back to a non-tmpfs
11 >>> location whenever I build it or else the system pretty-much dies from
12 >>> a lack of RAM.
13 >>
14 >> Then I'd say you have your tmpfs mount options configured wrongly :-)
15 >> You should specify a maximum amount of RAM it should use. When it fill
16 >> up, it then uses swap.
17 >
18 > I take that back. It seems you can't do that with tmpfs :-(
19 >
20 >
21
22 It seems you correct the first time.
23
24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs
25
26 I found the same examples in other paces as well. One is in the mount
27 man page.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>