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2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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> gevisz wrote: |
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>> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a try. |
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>> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. |
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>> Do I correctly understood https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs |
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>> that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so |
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>> that the chromium |
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>> could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set notmpfs.conf |
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>> for chromium and the likes. |
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>> |
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>> And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just |
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>> /var/tmp/portage |
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>> Is it ok? |
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> I have 16GBs of memory here and have /var/tmp/portage/ on tmpfs, no |
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> ccache. With the growing size of packages, I've had to put several on |
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> regular spinning rust to make sure enough space is available. This is |
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> my list, so far. |
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> www-client/firefox |
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> www-client/seamonkey |
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> app-office/libreoffice |
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> sys-devel/gcc |
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> dev-qt/qtwebengine |
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> dev-qt/qtwebkit |
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Thank you for your reply and the notmpfs exception list. |
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I think it would be helpfull not only for me. |
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> Those are the ones that tend to run into space problems. Keep in mind, |
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> I have twice the memory you have. As someone else pointed out, if you |
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> start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs. |
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> While I'm sure plenty of packages will make good use of portage being on |
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> tmpfs, there will be quite a few that will have space problems. You |
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> will need to be ready to make exceptions for those as they show up but |
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> those in my list are certainly ones that you may want to add before |
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> trying. There could be exceptions to this based on your habits and |
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> memory requirements for other things but that is my experience so far. |
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> Hope that helps. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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