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On Freitag, 3. August 2007, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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> > If you have lots of memory (2 gigs or better, 4 gigs is nice, I have 8 |
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> > but that's overkill), strongly consider setting up your PORTAGE_TMPDIR |
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> > (/var/tmp by default) on tmpfs. |
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> Actually, as long as you have enough swap your RAM doesn't really |
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> matter. In the worst case it just swaps to disk, which is what it would |
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> be doing anyway if you didn't have a tmpfs. Even if only 10% of the |
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> short-lived files didn't make it to disk it would be a huge savings in |
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> IO waits. |
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emm, from my very personal point of view: no |
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swap is horrible slow. Its use must be avoided at any cost. Swap sucks. |
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Everything is faster than accessing swap. So hitting the disk to read or |
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write some files is IMHO better than hitting the disk to shove X into swap. |
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X in swap is another problem. You can be sure, if X is forced into swap, |
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because gcc uses up all ram for itself, everything sucks. Mouse is jerky, |
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windows need ages to get displayed. |
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Everything that makes swapping more likely is bad advise and shall be avoided. |
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