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On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:40:03 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: |
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> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped |
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> > out to the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at |
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> > the time. |
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> The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM, |
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> unless you specify more as a mount option, it will never use |
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> significant amounts of swap. |
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> I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds |
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> that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of |
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> memory too, and tmpfs is using it all. |
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In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and |
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found that using a tmpfs was actually slower. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |