Re: [gentoo-amd64] Emerge and Tmpfs

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Frank Peters<frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote:
> After reading through the thread on this list about the benefits
> of mounting PORTAGE_TMPDIR as tmpfs, I decided that I will be doing
> this mount from now on.  My total RAM is 4G, but since I only "emerge world"
> about once per week, I can easily set aside temporarily 2G or more for this
> purpose.
>
> However, after doing some more reading, I find that some people recommend
> mounting tmpfs using the option nr_inodes=1M, while others just accept
> the default value for nr_inodes.
>
> To me, setting maximum inodes to 1M seems a bit high.  Can emerge actually
> generate that many temporary files?  Would it be safer and also avoid swapping
> to set nr_inodes=1M or is the default good enough?.

I have this and never had any problems:

none        /dev/shm  tmpfs   defaults          0 0

(with both 4gb and 8gb of RAM)