2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > gevisz wrote: >> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a >> try. >> >> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. >> >> Do I correctly understood >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs >> that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so >> that the chromium >> could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set >> notmpfs.conf >> for chromium and the likes. >> >> And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just >> /var/tmp/portage >> Is it ok? > > I have 16GBs of memory here and have /var/tmp/portage/ on tmpfs, no > ccache. With the growing size of packages, I've had to put several on > regular spinning rust to make sure enough space is available. This is > my list, so far. > > www-client/firefox > www-client/seamonkey > app-office/libreoffice > sys-devel/gcc > dev-qt/qtwebengine > dev-qt/qtwebkit
Thank you for your reply and the notmpfs exception list. I think it would be helpfull not only for me. > Those are the ones that tend to run into space problems. Keep in mind, > I have twice the memory you have. As someone else pointed out, if you > start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs. > > While I'm sure plenty of packages will make good use of portage being on > tmpfs, there will be quite a few that will have space problems. You > will need to be ready to make exceptions for those as they show up but > those in my list are certainly ones that you may want to add before > trying. There could be exceptions to this based on your habits and > memory requirements for other things but that is my experience so far. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
