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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira |
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>> <spideybr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not |
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>>> interested currently. |
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>>> My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll create an 8gb ramdisk |
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>>> on it to increase emerge performance. Other than that, I'm pretty |
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>>> happy with my system performance, disabling swap and compositing |
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>>> effects (remember, open source radeon drivers, I might try fglrx again |
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>>> but I really liked KMS) did the trick. |
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>> 8GB isn't enough for some packages. Though putting it on top of zram |
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>> might work. I don't know how you'd calculate the free space, though, |
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>> and portage would check in advance. |
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> I have portages work directory on tmpfs and it works fine. I don't have it |
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> set to a specific amount so it uses whatever it needs. It even works fine |
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> with LOo. I have 16Gbs in all but it rarely uses more than 4Gbs. Of |
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> course, I don't just sit here and watch it either. I start my updates and |
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> usually go to bed. |
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Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB. |
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What do you have for mount options in fstab? |
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I used to put portage's work directory on tmpfs, but I had to stop |
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when LO ran out of space in a pre-check, IIRC. Now I have it on top of |
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a RAID5 it shares with /home. |
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:wq |