Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 06:12:40 Dale wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, a while back, OOo and LOo wanted more than 8Gbs.  It wasn't my
> need but what portage looked for.  Then someone did some changes and
> reduced that need and it worked.  From my understanding, there was some
> code clean up that helped in that.  I think it looks for 6Gbs now.  From
> the ebuild:
> 
> CHECKREQS_MEMORY="512M"
> CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="6G"
> 
> It used to be more than that.  If it didn't have enough, it stopped.
> Even when I would override that setting, it would still run out of space
> more often than not.  As a matter of fact, I still have the command in
> my freq used commands file that I used to fix it:
> 
> mount -t tmpfs -o size=12g tmpfs /var/tmp/portage

Does it stop dead or does it start to page into swap?

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Regards,
Mick

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