From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:11:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130720021136.GZ3387@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E9E923.4090800@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Stop using disk and build in RAM:
> >
> > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0
> > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
> >
> > workstation ~ # free -m
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 15798 3711 12087 0 0 937
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 2772 13025
> > Swap: 8103 0 8103
>
> He may not have enough to do that tho. Some folks only have 4Gbs or
> less still. That won't be enough for LOo. Heck, my 16Gbs wasn't enough
> at one time. I had to either let it be on HDD or set it to a higher
> amount than the default half.
>
> I also tested the time difference once before, it didn't really make
> much difference. It just saves wear on a drive is all.
>
> Dale
If 16GB of RAM wasn't enough, ydiw. I've used that line of 7G forever, and run
app-office/libreoffice, as well as firefox and some other big app (forget it's
name) and _never_ had a problem.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-20 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 21:22 [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration luis jure
2013-07-18 21:40 ` Davide De Prisco
2013-07-18 22:08 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 6:46 ` Davide De Prisco
2013-07-18 22:23 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-18 22:46 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-19 2:56 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 6:56 ` Dale
2013-07-19 7:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-19 8:22 ` Dale
2013-07-19 8:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-19 8:55 ` Dale
2013-07-19 9:33 ` Randolph Maaßen
2013-07-19 9:51 ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-19 17:47 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 18:45 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-19 21:19 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 22:57 ` Dale
2013-07-19 14:30 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-19 14:42 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 16:43 ` Dale
2013-07-19 18:45 ` Mick
2013-07-19 18:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 2:56 ` Stroller
2013-07-19 19:02 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-20 14:26 ` SSDs, VM SANs & RAID - WAS " Tanstaafl
2013-07-20 18:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-07-22 21:42 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-07-22 22:22 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-22 22:26 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-07-22 22:38 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-19 19:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-19 23:03 ` Dale
2013-07-19 23:23 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 23:39 ` Dale
2013-07-19 23:58 ` luis jure
2013-07-20 0:32 ` Dale
2013-07-20 1:01 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 1:34 ` Dale
2013-07-20 2:11 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2013-07-20 5:12 ` Dale
2013-07-21 7:13 ` Mick
2013-07-21 9:40 ` Dale
2013-07-21 9:57 ` Mick
2013-07-21 10:10 ` Dale
2013-07-21 10:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 7:42 ` pk
2013-07-20 11:59 ` luis jure
2013-07-20 16:25 ` pk
2013-07-20 20:02 ` Dale
2013-07-20 21:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 22:00 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 22:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 22:38 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 22:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 23:02 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-20 23:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 9:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-07-21 9:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 13:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-07-22 20:23 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-07-23 7:41 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-07-23 8:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 9:47 ` Dale
2013-07-20 0:35 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-20 0:50 ` Dale
2013-07-20 21:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 1:55 ` Stroller
2013-07-22 21:54 ` Randy Barlow
2013-07-20 10:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-20 13:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-07-20 19:50 ` Dale
2013-07-20 21:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 9:50 ` Dale
2013-07-21 10:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 21:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-19 22:00 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 22:11 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 23:34 ` luis jure
2013-07-20 0:58 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 22:29 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-19 23:06 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 23:44 ` [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration - caveat luis jure
2013-07-20 1:51 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-20 3:32 ` luis jure
2013-07-22 20:06 ` Michael Hampicke
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