Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:37:28
Message-Id: CAEH5T2OxedEOx20wsJTxG9HU+c5DWMO_sKcb+=NZKzLPm82eOA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver by Silvio Siefke
1 On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen@×××.de> wrote:
2 >> I was once contacted from strato because of the high load I put on the
3 >> server but then I changed /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs and added
4 >>
5 >> PORTAGE_NICENESS="19"
6 >> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
7 >
8 > Ok its great idea, can u explain me what mean /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs?
9 > Then i will follow ur advice.
10
11 In /etc/make.conf set the portage temporary directory to a location on
12 tmpfs, for example mine:
13
14 PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/dev/shm
15
16 This only works well if you have a lot of free RAM available, though.