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? -- Regards, Mick
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