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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:56:43
Message-Id: CA+czFiBHPyon04U3i_Q42yYn37WFpU5_dpenb99gnYkfwoMGvg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey
2 <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote:
4 >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >> > What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs?  Start
6 >> > swapping like mad?
7 >>
8 >> No; the tmpfs runs out of space, and the build fails. Had that happen
9 >> with Thunderbird, and thus ended my usage of tmpfs for /var/tmp.
10 >
11 > Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to the
12 > swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
13
14 Possible. With 6-8GB of RAM, I've generally not needed it.
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17 :wq