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On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 06:12:40 Dale wrote: |
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> Bruce Hill wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >>> Stop using disk and build in RAM: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs |
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> >>> size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm |
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> >>> tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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> >>> |
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> >>> workstation ~ # free -m |
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> >>> |
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> >>> total used free shared buffers |
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> >>> cached |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Mem: 15798 3711 12087 0 0 |
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> >>> 937 -/+ buffers/cache: 2772 13025 |
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> >>> Swap: 8103 0 8103 |
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> >> |
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> >> He may not have enough to do that tho. Some folks only have 4Gbs or |
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> >> less still. That won't be enough for LOo. Heck, my 16Gbs wasn't enough |
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> >> at one time. I had to either let it be on HDD or set it to a higher |
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> >> amount than the default half. |
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> >> |
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> >> I also tested the time difference once before, it didn't really make |
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> >> much difference. It just saves wear on a drive is all. |
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> >> |
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> >> Dale |
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> > |
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> > If 16GB of RAM wasn't enough, ydiw. I've used that line of 7G forever, |
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> > and run app-office/libreoffice, as well as firefox and some other big |
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> > app (forget it's name) and _never_ had a problem. |
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> Well, a while back, OOo and LOo wanted more than 8Gbs. It wasn't my |
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> need but what portage looked for. Then someone did some changes and |
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> reduced that need and it worked. From my understanding, there was some |
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> code clean up that helped in that. I think it looks for 6Gbs now. From |
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> the ebuild: |
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> CHECKREQS_MEMORY="512M" |
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> CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="6G" |
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> It used to be more than that. If it didn't have enough, it stopped. |
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> Even when I would override that setting, it would still run out of space |
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> more often than not. As a matter of fact, I still have the command in |
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> my freq used commands file that I used to fix it: |
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> mount -t tmpfs -o size=12g tmpfs /var/tmp/portage |
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Does it stop dead or does it start to page into swap? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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