Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

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On 28/04/2021 13:03, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> There have been several tests posted over the years that show that using
> a tmpfs for TMPDIR doesn't give as much of a gain as you would expect.
> With NVMe drives, the difference is likely to be even smaller.

But that's not the only reason for a tmpfs. I guess the reason tmpfs 
doesn't necessarily give much gain is because linux caches everything so 
it's quite possible stuff never gets written to disk.

And I know gentoo does clean up behind itself, but I use tmpfs so the 
system cleans up behind it too, and it's got as much room as it needs. 
When you see things like firefox allegedly needing 10s of gigs, I 
thought "just give it oodles and let it take what it wants".

Cheers,
Wol