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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey |
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> <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>>> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at |
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>>> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds |
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>>> things up even more ;) |
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>> The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, |
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>> as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping. |
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> In my experience if it starts swapping, that is much slower than just |
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> using disk for /tmp in the first place. YMMV :) |
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My thought was that at least portage wouldn't stop the compile when it |
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ran out of room. I usually put /var on a separate partition and always |
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forget that OOo needs some space. I usually don't give it enough the |
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first time around. Doesn't OOo need about 4 or 5Gbs now? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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