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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 21-Jan-14 18:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:03:08 +0100, Jarry wrote: |
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>>> I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation |
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>>> to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not |
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>>> guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, |
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>>> if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server |
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>>> lowers buffers/cache to nearly zero and starts swapping... |
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>> Then don't use more than 512MB, I certainly wouldn't use less for the |
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>> packages you mention. |
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> OMG, I was really over-optimistic! Even 2 GB tmpfs for |
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> /var/tmp/portage was not enough to re-compile gcc-4.7.3! |
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You can configure emerge to build large packages outside of the tmpfs drive. |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs |
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HTH |
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David Abbott (dabbott) |
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