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On 08/23/2011 11:02 PM, Frank Peters wrote: |
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> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:05:42 +0200 |
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> Agostino Sarubbo<ago@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> You need more than 3GB of diskspace free. So If you compile on a limited tmpfs |
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>> space, you can compile it with: |
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>> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/another_path_that_is_on_disk" emerge thunderbird |
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> I didn't think that this should matter since, AFAIK, tmpfs is automatically |
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> expanded when necessary using swap space. |
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Nope. It is never expanded. If you mount a 2GB tmpfs, it will always |
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be 2GB big. |
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swap only comes into play when you mount, say, a 10GB tmpfs on an 8GB |
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RAM system. When all RAM is about to be used up, then tmpfs will use |
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swap for the remaining 2GB. |