From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HCCvA-0006Iu-EA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:42:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0VAfR0g028868; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:41:27 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0VAbOO5023837 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:37:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889E616634 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:37:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id gw3zai+gbFOm for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4291917741 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:37:20 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:37:01 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45BFE6A6.9000009@gentoo.org> <20070131012214.07cf8a6a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070131012214.07cf8a6a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5918935.zeaCa3f8QG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701310437.15092.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: e550b14c-1129-4c12-92f2-dc087acdd0d5 X-Archives-Hash: 647301d5ef833ab1d092996270a007ac --nextPart5918935.zeaCa3f8QG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:22, Neil Bothwick wrote= =20 about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:26 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: > > Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs > > out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. > > Really? Yes, tmpfs is backed by virtual memory not real memory so it will use your= =20 swap if needed. However, by default, each tmpfs mount is limited to 1/2=20 the physical RAM. In any case, it seems questionable to put yourself in a position where=20 tmpfs is hitting the HD often; it's not tuned for such craziness and=20 probably performs worse than other filesystems in that case. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 --nextPart5918935.zeaCa3f8QG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFwHFbq72nDbhDXToRAuGWAJ46h2/eN9hL4gxExyp3jNYNfAQ1PgCdFD3u 4nHDcSayICeLpgSfBzzal/Q= =6R6s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5918935.zeaCa3f8QG-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list