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On 08/02/18 19:11, gevisz wrote: |
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> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a try. |
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> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. |
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> Do I correctly understood https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs |
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> that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so |
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> that the chromium |
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> could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set notmpfs.conf |
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> for chromium and the likes. |
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> And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just |
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> /var/tmp/portage |
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> Is it ok? |
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If you're not using ccache, then you don't need /var/tmp to be on tmpfs. |
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You should only put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. |
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If you do use ccache, then you need to mount both /var/tmp and |
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/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. Although if you end up swapping, it's |
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probably going to be slower than not using tmpfs. So unless you have |
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something like 32GB of RAM, it might be best to use notmpfs.conf for |
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Chromium anyway. |
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(Although I didn't benchmark swap vs notmpfs.conf. Swap being slower |
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than notmpfs.conf is just an educated guess.) |
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