On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 09:04:55 GMT Petr Vaněk wrote: > I use tmpfs to reduce compilation writes [1]. > > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage/ > tmpfs uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775,size=2G,noatime 0 0 > tmpfs /tmp/ tmpfs mode=0777,size=1G,noexec,nosuid,noatime 0 0 > > 2G is usually enough for most of packages. > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs
Do you need to specify a size? I just let the kernel juggle the allocation of memory to tmpfs and everything else. That is what it's for, no? :) -- Regards, Peter.