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On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey |
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> > <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> >>> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at |
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> >>> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds |
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> >>> things up even more ;) |
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> >> |
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> >> The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, |
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> >> as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping. |
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> > In my experience if it starts swapping, that is much slower than just |
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> > using disk for /tmp in the first place. YMMV :) |
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> My thought was that at least portage wouldn't stop the compile when it |
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> ran out of room. I usually put /var on a separate partition and always |
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> forget that OOo needs some space. I usually don't give it enough the |
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> first time around. Doesn't OOo need about 4 or 5Gbs now? |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Yes, provided you don't have "debugging" enabled for the resulting code. |
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Apparently, that doubles the required size. |
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