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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at |
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>> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds |
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>> things up even more ;) |
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> The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, |
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> as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping. |
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> Actually, now that I check again, I see I've raised the size to 16G: |
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> $ grep 16G /etc/fstab |
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> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=16G 0 0 |
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> $ grep swap /etc/fstab |
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> /dev/sda3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 |
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> /dev/sdb3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 |
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> /dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 |
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> /dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 |
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> /dev/sdX3 are 2GB and /dev/sdX7 are 20GB (probably far too much swap, |
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> but disks are cheap). |
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Interesting. I didn't know it would go to swap when it started getting |
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full. |
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Considering a emerge -e world takes about 3 days on my old rig and only |
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takes about 10 hours on my new one, I already got a pretty good |
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increase. We are always looking for more tho ain't we? lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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