On 02/09/2018 03:30 AM, gevisz wrote:
May be, it is not a good idea to put /mnt on tmpfs at the time of Spector
and Meltdown?
I wouldn't put /mnt on tmpfs as I routinely create mount points there
in. As such they would be lost on reboot.
What difference does Spector or Meltdown (or the next
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 gevisz wrote about
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs:
> > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in
> > make.conf. Job done!
>
> It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then?
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:12:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in
> > make.conf. Job done!
>
> Acting on the advice of various Gentoo guides, I have this:
>
> # grep tmp /etc/fstab
> tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200, gevisz wrote:
> > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in
> > make.conf. Job done!
>
> It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then?
>
Because when the defaults were picked neither /tmp nor /var/tmp used
tmpf
2018-02-09 3:24 GMT+02:00 Dale :
>
> In my experience, once swap starts getting used, it gets slow, sometimes
> to the point that a response may take several seconds or more. When I
> compile without tmpfs at all, which means everything is on disk, it's
> rare that I can even tell it is using that
2018-02-09 10:11 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick :
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote:
>
>> > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be
>> > non-volatile (across reboots).
>> >
>> > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots).
>> >
>> > I would
On Friday, 9 February 2018 08:11:29 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote:
> > > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be
> > > non-volatile (across reboots).
> > >
> > > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote:
> > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be
> > non-volatile (across reboots).
> >
> > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots).
> >
> > I would advise against mounting /var/tmp on tmpfs.
> >
gevisz wrote:
> 2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale :
>> 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_
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Dale wrote:
>> As someone else pointed out, if you
>> start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs.
>>
> I'll just add one thing to this, which I've probably already said ages ago:
>
> In an ideal world swap would STILL be bett
On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
/var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash
recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that
reply on that*defined* behaviour to recover after a crash.
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
>
> /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash
> recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that
> reply on that *defined* behaviour to recover after a crash.
>
Care to cite an example of such
On 02/08/2018 04:18 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
EMPHATICALLY YES.
;-)
/tmp is defined as being volatile - stuff can disappear at any time.
I don't know that I've ever had things in /tmp disappear "at any time"
as in randomly and without external influence. Usually it's a reboot or
nightly mai
On 08/02/18 20:56, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 02/08/2018 10:11 AM, gevisz wrote:
And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp on tpmfs instead of just
/var/tmp/portage
Is it ok?
I don't know about the context of emerging, but I do know about the
context of /var/tmp being volatile.
More specifical
2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale :
> 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
On 02/08/2018 10:11 AM, gevisz wrote:
And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp on tpmfs instead of just
/var/tmp/portage
Is it ok?
I don't know about the context of emerging, but I do know about the
context of /var/tmp being volatile.
More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed t
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Dale wrote:
> As someone else pointed out, if you
> start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs.
>
I'll just add one thing to this, which I've probably already said ages ago:
In an ideal world swap would STILL be better than building on disk,
bec
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
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 chr
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