Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Wednesday 27 July 2011 16:35:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
> > > that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
> > > memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
> >
> > In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and
> > found that using a tmpfs was actually slower.
>
> Yes, but that was Dale and nothing works as it should for him :-O

I did similar tests as well and came to the conclusion that the speed 
difference was minimal. Actually favouring the physical drive.

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Joost