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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition | ||
| Date: | Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:14 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20110727154003.13bfb6fb@zaphod.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition by Peter Humphrey |
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| 1 | On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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| 3 | > Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to |
| 4 | > the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM, unless |
| 7 | you specify more as a mount option, it will never use significant |
| 8 | amounts of swap. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds that |
| 11 | need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of memory too, and |
| 12 | tmpfs is using it all. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | -- |
| 16 | Neil Bothwick |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Nobody's perfect and since I'm nobody...! |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition | Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> |