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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:56:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205215627.6fec87e3@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1768467.U8M6HPhz0d@peak>

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On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:09:56 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab
> tmpfs   /var/tmp/portage  tmpfs
> noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775  0 0
> tmpfs   /tmp                      tmpfs
> noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777   0 0

Or you could set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to /tmp to save the second mount.

> If a tmpfs fills up, the excess gets swapped out, but with 32GB RAM
> here I haven't yet seen any swap used at all - not even in an emerge -e
> world.

You can increase the memory available to it with the size option.
size=75% works for m, even if building chromium and LO at the same time.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22  6:52 [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it? Raffaele Belardi
2017-11-22  7:21 ` R0b0t1
2017-11-22  7:26 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2017-11-22  8:23   ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-22  8:34   ` David Haller
2017-11-22 10:07     ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-11-22 11:26       ` David Haller
2017-11-23 22:47         ` Martin Vaeth
2017-11-22 13:12   ` [gentoo-user] " Raffaele Belardi
2017-11-22 13:23     ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-22 14:11     ` Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
2017-11-22 14:34       ` Wols Lists
2017-11-22 16:27         ` J. Roeleveld
2017-12-05  4:11           ` Taiidan
2017-12-05  4:17             ` R0b0t1
2017-12-05 10:09             ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 10:46               ` Wols Lists
2017-12-05 11:13                 ` Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-05 11:39                   ` Mick
2017-12-05 13:07                 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 13:57                   ` Wols Lists
2017-12-05 14:13                     ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 21:56               ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2017-12-06 13:29                 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-06 15:34                   ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-06 16:07                     ` Wols Lists
2017-12-06 23:51                       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-06 16:12                     ` [gentoo-user] " Wols Lists
2017-12-06 17:24                     ` Kai Peter
2017-11-22  7:48 ` David Haller
2017-11-22  8:32   ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-22  8:57     ` David Haller
2017-11-22 12:16       ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-22 16:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-28 10:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-01 10:39   ` J. Roeleveld

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