From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1739A138010 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66CADE064C; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528B0E0521 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2672FC6E10 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:52:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([77.75.108.10]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id D2lztvmTlDR7 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:52:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7826C6E08 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:52:03 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:52:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.9-gentoo; KDE/4.8.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20120904072003.GD3095@ca.inter.net> <12606297.kP9TK3ELV4@energy> <20120904220048.111fc188@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120904220048.111fc188@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201209042252.03294.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: d8691733-b41f-4e10-9c6a-71e0cee26dcb X-Archives-Hash: 8a82987464b07580a27e30c4dda22402 On Tuesday 04 September 2012 22:00:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:31:23 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > IF PORTAGE_TMPDIR fills up - no biggy, emerge dies, that's it. But > > /tmp filled up? Suddenly you will have lots of strange problems... > > don't do it. Spare yourself some headaches. > > Good point, maybe I should have mentioned I have a 13GB /tmp. Interesting. Also having 16GB RAM I've limited /tmp to 10GB. I wonder whether 13GB would offer any advantage. Unlikely, as the only time it gets used in earnest is when compiling Firefox, OO and the like. Maybe I should just remove the restriction and let the kernel optimise its own use of swap and tmpfs. This box spends well over 90% of its cycles on BOINC projects, which crunch large numbers of numbers but don't take up a lot of space (by modern standards). -- Rgds Peter