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Grant wrote: |
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> I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since |
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> the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move |
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> for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a |
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> bad idea? |
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Instead of disabling swap, just make it small (like 32MB or something; |
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whatever the smallest allowable partition size is). The kernel needs |
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swap to operate optimally, even if it's extremely small. Just make sure |
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it's there. |
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Mounting /tmp as tmpfs improves speed, so no problems there. You might |
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want to mount /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs too, that will give nice speed |
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gains during emerge (if you have the RAM for it; a 2GB /var/tmp/portage |
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should be enough for almost anything except OpenOffice, you'll have to |
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umount to emerge that one.) |
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