Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:56:21
Message-Id: 20130722105558.71c47d43@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:49:48 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2
3 > > experience with compiling in tempfs is that it works, but has a much
4 > > higher failure rate than on disk - i.e., things like OO/Lo, KDE, gcc
5 > > and glibc have large space requirements that you must make sure tmpfs
6 > > can satisfy before you start.
7 >
8 > em, no. KDE does not have large space requirements. LO does. The rest
9 > is happy with 2gb of tmpfs diskspace.
10
11 And portage checks for sufficient space for greedy packages before it
12 starts emerging anything, so if there is a problem you know right away.
13
14
15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature