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From: Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] tmpfs help
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:37:49
Message-Id: d257c3560802120237v35370742x4bc69a4ab3b93e4d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] tmpfs help by Mateusz Mierzwinski
1 2008/2/12, Mateusz Mierzwinski <mateuszmierzwinski@××.pl>:
2 >
3 > Beso pisze:
4 > > i recently put portage on tmpfs and i'm happy about it since i got a
5 > > nice speedup in compilation, but i get an issue: tmpfs is only 450mb
6 > > long.
7 > > is there a way to increase it?!?!
8 > >
9 > > --
10 > > dott. ing. beso
11 > Well, You should remove distfiles in portage tree after compilation. All
12 > downloaded files are placed in distfiles directory, and this can take
13 > Your free space. Also if You need to compile only some part of packages,
14 > You can make bindings for some packeges and only a part of portage tree
15 > store in tmpfs, and part bind by "mount -o bind" or "ln -sf" into tmpfs
16 > tree from normal fs. Also I must warn You, that tmpfs is not good idea
17 > to place portage tree because of system dependency like /proc or /sys.
18 > Tmpfs is SHM.
19 >
20 > Greetings
21 > Mateusz M.
22 > --
23 > gentoo-amd64@l.g.o mailing list
24 >
25 >
26 i didn't put portage tree on tmpfs, but just portage compilation directory.
27 even distfiles aren't on tmpfs since i don't want to download distfiles
28 everytime i compile something. the problem is that it's too small for
29 certain packages like kdelibs and other big ones.
30
31 --
32 dott. ing. beso