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On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 08:24:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: |
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>> Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount |
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>> /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows |
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>> none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs |
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>> size=10g,nr_inodes=1m |
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>> I have 4GB ram, and the speed benefit especially for open/libre-office is |
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>> quite impressive. |
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>> The advantage is, that it |
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>> a) uses only as much of memory as is really used |
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>> b) you may use mount option -remount to increase the size of the |
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>> filesystem, and add proper swapfiles if you see that you're running out of |
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>> space (mkswap, swapon) |
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> I also only have 4G of RAM and libreoffice seems to need more than 7-8G of |
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> /var/tmp/portage to compile and build. OOo does it in less that 5G. |
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> What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start swapping like |
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> mad? |
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No; the tmpfs runs out of space, and the build fails. Had that happen |
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with Thunderbird, and thus ended my usage of tmpfs for /var/tmp. I'll |
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probably go back to using tmpfs there once I've bumped my machine up |
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to the motherboard's max of 16GB of RAM. |
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:wq |
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