On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Silvio Siefke <siefke_lis...@web.de> wrote:
>> I was once contacted from strato because of the high load I put on the
>> server but then I changed /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs and added
>>
>> PORTAGE_NICENESS="19"
>> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
>
> Ok its great idea, can u explain me what mean /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs?
> Then i will follow ur advice.In /etc/make.conf set the portage temporary directory to a location on tmpfs, for example mine: PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/dev/shm This only works well if you have a lot of free RAM available, though.
