On 10/02/18 20:06, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow wrote:
Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 + schrieb Wols Lists:
On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote:
role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of
/usr (that's why it's called /usr, it wa
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 + schrieb Wols Lists:
>
>> On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote:
>>> role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of
>>> /usr (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). Th
On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote:
> role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of /usr
> (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). The
Actually no, not at all. /usr is not short for USeR, it's an acronym for
User System Resources, which is why it c
2018-02-09 4:15 GMT+02:00 Ian Zimmerman :
> On 2018-02-09 01:15, Wol's lists wrote:
>
>> > Care to cite an example of such a program in the Gentoo repo? I
>> > certainly can't think of any, and I've been running with /var/tmp on
>> > tmpfs for over a decade.
>>
>> I don't know of any.
>
> vim?
>
>
2018-02-09 3:50 GMT+02:00 Dale :
> gevisz wrote:
>>
>> You probably will be surprised, but the main reason I am trying to use
>> tmpfs for /var/tmp/ is not because I want to make emerging chromium
>> faster (I have no hope about that because read somewhere that it will
>> make compilation only 10 p
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 22:50:58 +, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
> Just adding my 2 cents EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--fail-clean" helps a ton
> with tmpfs.
But it doesn't help much when your chromium build fails with 30 minutes to
go and a quick(ish) "ebuild path/to/ebuild merge" would have fixed it, as
h
2018-02-09 0:50 GMT+02:00 Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor :
> From: freemanr...@gmail.com on behalf of Rich
> Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:38 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs
>
> Just adding my 2 cents EMERGE_DEFAU
gevisz wrote:
>
> You probably will be surprised, but the main reason I am trying to use
> tmpfs for /var/tmp/ is not because I want to make emerging chromium
> faster (I have no hope about that because read somewhere that it will
> make compilation only 10 percent faster) but because I have not to
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/02/18 21:17, Dale wrote:
>> 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.
>>
On 02/08/2018 03:32 PM, gevisz wrote:
In this case it would be nice to hear a reason.
I think the reason probably goes back a number of years. When /tmp was
made volatile (ram / swap backed) there was a need for non-volatile temp
space. Thus, /var/tmp was created as non-volatile specificall
From: freemanr...@gmail.com on behalf of Rich Freeman
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:38 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:32 PM, gevisz wrote:
>> 2018-02-09 0:19 GMT+02:00
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:32 PM, gevisz wrote:
> 2018-02-09 0:19 GMT+02:00 Nikos Chantziaras :
>> On 08/02/18 23:31, gevisz wrote:
>>>
>>> I do not use ccache, and in my /var/tmp I only have /var/tmp/portage
>>> and /var/tmp/genkernel (I use genkernel to generate initramfs image).
>>>
>>> I never u
2018-02-09 0:19 GMT+02:00 Nikos Chantziaras :
> On 08/02/18 23:31, gevisz wrote:
>>
>> I do not use ccache, and in my /var/tmp I only have /var/tmp/portage
>> and /var/tmp/genkernel (I use genkernel to generate initramfs image).
>>
>> I never use emerge and genkernel at the same time. So, why not t
2018-02-08 23:57 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman :
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:52 PM, gevisz wrote:
>>
>> However, it probably won't be sooner than
>> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask
>> world --exclude chromium
>> fails because of the "--exclude chromium" part :), as I
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:52 PM, gevisz wrote:
>
> However, it probably won't be sooner than
> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask
> world --exclude chromium
> fails because of the "--exclude chromium" part :), as I have already compiled
> the recent vertion of chr
2018-02-08 20:13 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman :
> On 08/02/18 19:11, 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/Port
2018-02-08 19:47 GMT+02:00 Nikos Chantziaras :
> On 08/02/18 19:11, 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
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/02/18 20:13, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>
>>> If you're not using ccache, then you don't need /var/tmp to be on tmpfs.
>>> You
>>> should only put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs.
>>
>>
>> I disagree on this. Unless you have something that use
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/02/18 19:11, 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.
>>
You can try it, but for Chromium these days you
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