Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

[Mick]

On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 08:24:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
> /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
>
> none                    /var/tmp/portage        tmpfs
> size=10g,nr_inodes=1m
>
> I have 4GB ram, and the speed benefit especially for open/libre-office is
> quite impressive.
>
> The advantage is, that it
> a) uses only as much of memory as is really used
> b) you may use mount option -remount to increase the size of the
> filesystem, and add proper swapfiles if you see that you're running out of
> space (mkswap, swapon)

I also only have 4G of RAM and libreoffice seems to need more than 7-8G of 
/var/tmp/portage to compile and build.  OOo does it in less that 5G.

What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs?  Start swapping like 
mad?

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Regards,
Mick