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Branko Badrljica wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> I'm on ext4 with delayed allocation enabled, but I still see GUI |
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>> lock-ups when emerging without tmpfs (and I do have nice 19 and ionice |
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>> idle). There are a few lock-ups even with tmpfs, but not as severe as |
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>> without it. But I do have 6GB RAM. Not sure if 2GB will be enough |
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>> since if you're running X and have apps open (Firefox, etc), RAM might |
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>> get pretty tight and tmpfs will swap out to disk. |
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>> |
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> I have /var/tmp on ext4 with delayed allocation on ext4 and 8GB RAM. |
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> For me tmpfs wasn't worth the hassle, so i dropped it. |
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Well, I don't see any kind of hassle anyway. All it takes is a line in |
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fstab. Certainly less hassle than using a real filesystem; that would |
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be hassle (you need a partition for it). Note that tmpfs does not use |
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RAM at all if you don't put something in there. And /var/tmp/portage is |
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always emptied after a successful emerge, and even swapped out if needed. |
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