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On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:57:24 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > Actually, portage looks for enough space before even starting and |
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> > still does. However, when I force it to ignore it, it stops and says |
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> > it ran out of space. I'd just rather it didn't use swap anyway. |
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> > Either way, OOo and LOo used to need lots of space. I think there |
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> > was some code cleanup and maybe some other changes that reduced that |
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> > a lot. I think there was also some gcc changes to but not sure on |
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> > that. |
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> > I did some more searching after my last post, at one point it looked |
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> > for at least 12GBs from what I found. That was the largest setting I |
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> > found. |
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> Right, so running /var/tmp/portage on a tmpfs definitely won't work on |
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> an old box of mine with only a few MB of memory. |
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It will, because it starts to use swap, but then there's no benefit to |
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using tmpfs in the first place. What I used to do on my netbook was run |
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tmpfs for /tmp and have PORTAGE_TMPDIR use that by default but set |
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specific packages to use a different, on disk, location |
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% cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice |
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app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf |
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]% cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf |
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" |
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where /mnt/scratch is a directory I use for all sorts of non-permanent |
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files. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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