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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:57:05
Message-Id: 1960035.4TjmxmbcuX@nazgul
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:40:03 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
2 > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped
4 > > out to the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at
5 > > the time.
6 >
7 > The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM,
8 > unless you specify more as a mount option, it will never use
9 > significant amounts of swap.
10 >
11 > I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
12 > that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
13 > memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
14
15 In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and
16 found that using a tmpfs was actually slower.
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20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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>