From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PvqQv-0003TJ-Lp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:18:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA0AEE0529; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr (smtp3-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFD6E0529; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from luciole.localnet (0x5737e842.cpe.ge-1-3-0-1110.sdnqu1.customer.tele.dk [87.55.232.66]) (Authenticated sender: stephane.guedon2) by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7FEE7A626B; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:16:22 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Guedon?= Organization: http://www.22decembre.eu To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] mounts options on a laptop Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:16:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-tuxonice; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <201103051148.18068.stephane@22decembre.eu> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3487753.HNA3Hq4INh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103051316.23964.stephane@22decembre.eu> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1ec5a9feeb11ba9b9f3cfc6d377d769e --nextPart3487753.HNA3Hq4INh Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:47:39 Kent Hagebrand wrote: > Yes, I use tmpfs on /vat/tmp/portage to reduce the disk i/o on my laptop. > Here is the line I use in the /etc/fstab: >=20 > none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs nr_inodes=3D1M,size=3D2G = 0 0 >=20 > This will allow the directory /var/tmp/portage to use at most 2GB of > memory (I have 4GB). > It is enough to compile most of the packages in portage. I compile in /tmp which is tmpfs, and I was thinking of /var/run as tmpfs On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:29:19 Florian Philipp wrote: > /var as tmpfs is not a good idea. There are lots of persistent files in > there. If you want to be standard-conformant, you cannot even mount > /var/tmp as tmpfs because its content is also meant to survive reboots. > You can still do it though and mounting /tmp as tmpfs is completely okay. >=20 > Your choice of filesystem has little or no effect. You could proably > argue that JFS needs less CPU resources than for example ReiserFS but > that really doesn't matter. >=20 > What you really want is app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools. >=20 > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp with reiserfs, the disk is said to run all over the time ! =2D-=20 St=C3=A9phane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf cl=C3=A9 publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.= asc --nextPart3487753.HNA3Hq4INh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAAECAAYFAk1yKZcACgkQPJH+in8bwIN1KAP/UO2MW5dcnoh0u1sw/oFKq88M pkfjaxd/pqyQese/sRw1bGE3yaWYElVtNCT9Cw1n+w7pqoqftNL837AXEC4rqGwR vbWkEPKWM2RAfsMaw+whAm4tYSo37j9uJ993BDomGt2OkTpF5I3XCsKjnZeYS/V2 0mydMQGG9pbTvPSk33k= =nAPG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3487753.HNA3Hq4INh--