On Tuesday 04 September 2012 22:00:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:31:23 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > IF PORTAGE_TMPDIR fills up - no biggy, emerge dies, that's it. But > > /tmp filled up? Suddenly you will have lots of strange problems... > > don't do it. Spare yourself some headaches. > > Good point, maybe I should have mentioned I have a 13GB /tmp.
Interesting. Also having 16GB RAM I've limited /tmp to 10GB. I wonder whether 13GB would offer any advantage. Unlikely, as the only time it gets used in earnest is when compiling Firefox, OO and the like. Maybe I should just remove the restriction and let the kernel optimise its own use of swap and tmpfs. This box spends well over 90% of its cycles on BOINC projects, which crunch large numbers of numbers but don't take up a lot of space (by modern standards). -- Rgds Peter
