Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 09:04:55 GMT Petr Vaněk wrote:

> I use tmpfs to reduce compilation writes [1].
>
> tmpfs		/var/tmp/portage/
> tmpfs	uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775,size=2G,noatime	0 0
> tmpfs		/tmp/					tmpfs
mode=0777,size=1G,noexec,nosuid,noatime	0	0
>
> 2G is usually enough for most of packages.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs

Do you need to specify a size? I just let the kernel juggle the allocation of 
memory to tmpfs and everything else. That is what it's for, no?  :)

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Regards,
Peter.