On Saturday 04 September 2010, Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > On Friday 03 September 2010, James wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits > >> for pruning /usr/tmp/portage > >> for a Gentoo workstation > >> or server? > >> > >> > >> James > > > > tmpfs 8,0G 0 8,0G 0% /var/tmp/portage > > > > thus with every reboot all the garbage is done. > > > > uptime > > > > 19:44:45 up 2:39, 12 users, load average: 0.31, 0.19, 0.18 > > > > there is no need to keep the box running while I am at work... > > I'd like to see you emerge openoffice from source with that setup. I > reckon you'd need around 8Gb of memory to do the job.
1) I have 8GB ram 2) I have 24GB swap 3) tmpfs can be swapped out. eix openoffice [I] app-office/openoffice Available versions: 3.2.0{tbz2} (~)3.2.1{tbz2} Installed versions: 3.2.1{tbz2}(15:41:02 31.07.2010) genlop -i app-office/openoffice * app-office/openoffice Total builds: 8 Global build time: 7 hours, 38 minutes and 30 seconds. Average merge time: 57 minutes and 18 seconds.