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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:55:27
Message-Id: CA+t6X7d255c9THta45Pcu62xDn8PhqauCR9i05qag5a0Vd0vvA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs by Dale
1 2018-02-09 3:24 GMT+02:00 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
2 >
3 > In my experience, once swap starts getting used, it gets slow, sometimes
4 > to the point that a response may take several seconds or more. When I
5 > compile without tmpfs at all, which means everything is on disk, it's
6 > rare that I can even tell it is using that IO for the drive.
7
8 Thank you for the information. It is always good to know the downside
9 of your decision. In this case, of using the swap.
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11 So far, I never saw my swap busy, even when running VirtualBox with
12 half of my RAM assigned to it.
13
14 > The catch is, take advice from different folks and weigh all the
15 > options, then test things to see what works best. It may be that one
16 > part of your post helps, another part from mine, another part from
17 > someone else and in the end, it leaves settings that work. Well, on
18 > that system and for that person at least. ;-)
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20 Yes. I am greatfull to all who wrote to this thread. :)