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Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira |
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>>> <spideybr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not |
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>>>> interested currently. |
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>>>> My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll create an 8gb ramdisk |
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>>>> on it to increase emerge performance. Other than that, I'm pretty |
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>>>> happy with my system performance, disabling swap and compositing |
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>>>> effects (remember, open source radeon drivers, I might try fglrx again |
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>>>> but I really liked KMS) did the trick. |
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>>> 8GB isn't enough for some packages. Though putting it on top of zram |
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>>> might work. I don't know how you'd calculate the free space, though, |
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>>> and portage would check in advance. |
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>> I have portages work directory on tmpfs and it works fine. I don't have it |
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>> set to a specific amount so it uses whatever it needs. It even works fine |
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>> with LOo. I have 16Gbs in all but it rarely uses more than 4Gbs. Of |
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>> course, I don't just sit here and watch it either. I start my updates and |
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>> usually go to bed. |
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> Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB. |
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> What do you have for mount options in fstab? |
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> I used to put portage's work directory on tmpfs, but I had to stop |
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> when LO ran out of space in a pre-check, IIRC. Now I have it on top of |
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> a RAID5 it shares with /home. |
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This is my fstab line: |
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tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs noatime 0 0 |
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According to df it is this size: |
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tmpfs 8232940 3008 8229932 1% /var/tmp/portage |
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So it defaults to half the ram you have. I read that somewhere so I set |
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mine up that way since from what I read, it can grow if needed. So far, |
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I have had no problems with it set this way. Even LOo compiles with no |
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problems. |
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Right now, I'm having a issue with phonon-gstreamer-4.5.1 so the failed |
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emerge is still there. If it hadn't failed, it would be using 0 space. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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