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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:15:58AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 09:04:55 GMT Petr Vaněk wrote: |
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> > I use tmpfs to reduce compilation writes [1]. |
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> > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage/ |
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> > tmpfs uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775,size=2G,noatime 0 0 |
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> > tmpfs /tmp/ tmpfs |
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> mode=0777,size=1G,noexec,nosuid,noatime 0 0 |
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> > 2G is usually enough for most of packages. |
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> > |
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> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs |
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> Do you need to specify a size? I just let the kernel juggle the allocation of |
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> memory to tmpfs and everything else. That is what it's for, no? :) |
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No, you don't but then the system sets size to 50% of physical memory |
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(see man 5 tmpfs). It is an upper bound, just in case if something |
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strange happens. |
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