On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 06:51:01PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Brendan Sleight wrote (23 May 2010 13:28:02 GMT) : > > On 21 May 2010 12:19, Daniel Baumann wrote: > >> can think of: moving everything except the config into build/, and > >> having build/ on a tmpfs. > > Maybe a silly question. But what happens if the tmpfs is too small, > > either limitation in hardware/swap or set too small by lh ? > > well, some program will abort when it is refused the necessary storage > space, and the whole build will then fail.
tmpfs uses swap. So at first the build will probably chalk up a bit for swapping. But I'm not sure you'll notice it for a long build. If there's not even swap, I figure that the OOM killer will spring into action. Not sure how it acts with tmpfs, though. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100523174454.gd31...@xorcom.com