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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:35:13 +0100
From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
> > that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
> > memory too, and tmpfs is using it all. =20
>=20
> In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements and=20
> found that using a tmpfs was actually slower.

Yes, but that was Dale and nothing works as it should for him :-O


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Neil Bothwick

I work with User-Surly Software.

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