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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:59:43
Message-Id: 4E3035A4.3020806@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>> I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
6 >>> that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
7 >>> memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
8 >>>
9 >> In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and
10 >> found that using a tmpfs was actually slower.
11 >>
12 > Yes, but that was Dale and nothing works as it should for him :-O
13 >
14 >
15 >
16
17 That one did. Someone on the forums posted the same results. It
18 doesn't make sense but . . . .
19
20 I can also say that I done a .35 kernel from scratch and can now
21 download videos. So, I'm working again. :-P
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>