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gevisz wrote: |
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> 2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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>> gevisz wrote: |
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>>> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a try. |
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>>> |
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>>> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. |
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>>> |
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>>> Do I correctly understood https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs |
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>>> that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so |
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>>> that the chromium |
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>>> could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set notmpfs.conf |
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>>> for chromium and the likes. |
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>>> |
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>>> And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just |
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>>> /var/tmp/portage |
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>>> Is it ok? |
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>> I have 16GBs of memory here and have /var/tmp/portage/ on tmpfs, no |
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>> ccache. With the growing size of packages, I've had to put several on |
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>> regular spinning rust to make sure enough space is available. This is |
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>> my list, so far. |
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>> |
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>> www-client/firefox |
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>> www-client/seamonkey |
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>> app-office/libreoffice |
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>> sys-devel/gcc |
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>> dev-qt/qtwebengine |
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>> dev-qt/qtwebkit |
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> Thank you for your reply and the notmpfs exception list. |
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> I think it would be helpfull not only for me. |
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> |
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>> Those are the ones that tend to run into space problems. Keep in mind, |
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>> I have twice the memory you have. As someone else pointed out, if you |
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>> start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs. |
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>> While I'm sure plenty of packages will make good use of portage being on |
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>> tmpfs, there will be quite a few that will have space problems. You |
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>> will need to be ready to make exceptions for those as they show up but |
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>> those in my list are certainly ones that you may want to add before |
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>> trying. There could be exceptions to this based on your habits and |
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>> memory requirements for other things but that is my experience so far. |
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>> Hope that helps. |
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>> |
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>> Dale |
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>> |
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>> :-) :-) |
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>> |
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You will likely find that you will get some interesting ideas from |
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several posts and then have to bring them together to work for you. |
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Sometimes, you have to mix and match to find what works for you. If |
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nothing else, sometimes I post something just in case it may give a |
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person a light bulb moment with a idea that no one even thought to post, |
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including me. |
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Sometimes just having a start point helps. Heck, we all started from |
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nothing when it comes to Gentoo. Some of us have been around long |
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enough to learn a lot but forget what we learned. ROFL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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