Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:42:36
Message-Id: 201107271441.33229.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition by Michael Mol
1 On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start
4 > > swapping like mad?
5 >
6 > No; the tmpfs runs out of space, and the build fails. Had that happen
7 > with Thunderbird, and thus ended my usage of tmpfs for /var/tmp.
8
9 Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to the
10 swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
11
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13 Rgds
14 Peter Linux Counter number 5290

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>