Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4

[Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>]

On Monday 06 November 2006 08:41, Duncan wrote:

> Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
> > Perhaps I ought to look into putting /tmp and /var/tmp onto tmpfs.
>
> Do so.  It makes a /big/ difference!

My reading so far suggests that I include these two lines in /etc/fstab:

tmpfs	/tmp		tmpfs	nodev,nosuid,noexec	0 0
tmpfs	/var/tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid,noexec	0 0

Is that all I have to do? I assume I don't need to specify tmpfs sizes; I 
have 4 GB RAM of which 0.5 GB is unavailable (owing to a motherboard 
problem that prompted the system builder to refund some of my money - small 
consolation). Probably I should put a script into /etc/conf.d/start.local 
to create a symlink from /var/tmp/ccache back to a real cache directory on 
disk, as it seems daft to install a compiler cache and then flush it at 
every reboot - at present mine has 1.5 GB of data. /tmp has 750 MB of stuff 
and is a separate disk partition at present, mounted on whichever system I 
boot.

>  I don't have all of KDE merged here

Nor I; I just have 9 meta-packages because I didn't want the education or 
games stuff, among others. I might have preferred to go to finer grain 
still, but it looked like too much work.

-- 
Rgds
Peter
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