Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:57:26 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:22:19 -0600, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> The biggest reason I needed to do this is that I usually have >>>> portage's work directory on tmpfs. I just don't have enough memory >>>> to do them all at the same time, one at a time would work tho. If I >>>> ever get around to upgrading to 32GBs, then this won't matter. >>> I get round this in another way >>> >>> % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice >>> app-office/libreoffice ccache.conf disk-tmpdir.conf >>> >>> % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf >>> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" >>> >>> There, the larger packages use spinning rust for $TMPDIR. This not >>> only means I can merge more than one of them at once, it also means I >>> can use my computer for other things while it's happening. >>> >>> >> The last time I ummounted it from tmpfs and some of my processes were >> killed when it was done. > There's no need to unmount anything. All other packages still use the > tmpfs location, I just have the bigger ones using my hard drive. It means > I don't need to worry about things running out of space or crippling my > other use of the computer - this is on a laptop with 8GB, my desktop now > has 32GB to I let everything use tmpfs.
When it ran out of ram that last time, I had everything building on disk not tmpfs. I ran out of memory because of the programs I had open and the memory needed for it to compile whatever it was it was compiling. I wasn't using memory for tmpfs at the time. It just killed some programs that were using a lot of ram instead of stopping emerge. Sort of odd now that I think about it. I'd rather it kill emerge when it runs out of ram myself. So, even with your settings, it would have done the same thing. I have no idea why it used so much ram that time. That's one reason I think it was compiling the three big ones plus some other big one or more. I think there is a couple big KDE related packages still lurking about. >> My hope was to wrestle those three under control in a way that they >> would only do one at a time without me having to monitor it or split the >> process. If I could do that, then I think the rest would be workable. >> Maybe one of the devs will add this nifty feature one day. I figure it >> will happen right after I upgrade my memory and no longer need it. >> ROFL > That would be pointless, as they would lose their most "enthusiastic" > beta tester ;-) > > Yea, well. lol Dale :-) :-)
