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On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:47:39 Kent Hagebrand wrote: |
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> Yes, I use tmpfs on /vat/tmp/portage to reduce the disk i/o on my laptop. |
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> Here is the line I use in the /etc/fstab: |
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> none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs nr_inodes=1M,size=2G 0 0 |
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> This will allow the directory /var/tmp/portage to use at most 2GB of |
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> memory (I have 4GB). |
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> It is enough to compile most of the packages in portage. |
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I compile in /tmp which is tmpfs, and I was thinking of /var/run as tmpfs |
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On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:29:19 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> /var as tmpfs is not a good idea. There are lots of persistent files in |
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> there. If you want to be standard-conformant, you cannot even mount |
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> /var/tmp as tmpfs because its content is also meant to survive reboots. |
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> You can still do it though and mounting /tmp as tmpfs is completely okay. |
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> Your choice of filesystem has little or no effect. You could proably |
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> argue that JFS needs less CPU resources than for example ReiserFS but |
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> that really doesn't matter. |
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> What you really want is app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools. |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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with reiserfs, the disk is said to run all over the time ! |
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