From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-142861-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260C31381F3 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD18021C0F4; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ye0-f181.google.com (mail-ye0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F004221C0F2 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f181.google.com with SMTP id m11so1010642yen.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:08:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TFU9TkngaJ9ilTucVXmBhxrsXm1YJlFv/E7xrcZD/4M=; b=JcMMC+Y7fc7n+NJv3VQpXcfkh3yjrErCaU3PCrGBhFjn15O37fSUjRLKDLq4kRDU8Z qf4xJI8BTGNCGnTDz21zE8uZNRyEZxdQTHxn/nZeIYuNwBfDL2PqGWt9iW1VwHHCjf6b GgR3hWP2NKFE8Nsn9V0ermNiaIjN3zn6sz4AvvAupwNKiZPWnu0PxtREXFX3SnBdzCYq 4Ng+bciGJ+QN61cGx5qtP1tQq/bGKTQuQp4/2Tv/GjlRLb5YRq8yZTqRyr7OLWw5ZEIe WZWW+7ZWqdjOgTCPU6EFO9uSZrFzrdu/kG1ewVh9RlsshP3jQ0+MMoEz+LDz2XaxkL+a bF5Q== Received: by 10.236.137.112 with SMTP id x76mr11902605yhi.56.1353946128181; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-119-99.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.119.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z1sm14105254anj.2.2012.11.26.08.08.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:08:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50B3940D.50002@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:08:45 -0600 From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration References: <CAHVEG0A=FRJEvC05RzJQnSTZOKCo_ORWm97ZOSp0Tn92FYem4w@mail.gmail.com> <50B27D0C.7080901@wonkology.org> <CAHVEG0Bcr9nDbRDnrFVyagTcBH_NPCQdasJ65tYw2BMcnocPQg@mail.gmail.com> <50B31E28.9080005@admin-box.com> <CAHVEG0B99Yq2EzLd2=KqdN7Y5zMYoP+D3_jRT+cMkdO1xA3k0A@mail.gmail.com> <CAJk4mG+Md3pM3T1weoU+fZ9=kMd1mKhe1Rb-gytPZD0T39JmUA@mail.gmail.com> <50B37E2D.7060403@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <50B37E2D.7060403@wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bb49d20c-9410-4e4c-9825-cba71b0b421d X-Archives-Hash: 211b7862c2c3a78b942c859b471e12fa Alex Schuster wrote: > Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira writes: > >> Well, with 8Gb RAM, i recommend use tmpfs on PORTAGE_TMPDIR, just while >> u are compiling anything. >> Or even with 6Gb too. > > I have 16 GB, with 8GB for $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs. There were issues > with some packages having not enough space, so I have this in > /etc/portage/package.env: > > app-office/libreoffice notmpfs.conf > dev-java/icedtea notmpfs.conf > games-fps/alienarena notmpfs.conf > games-fps/worldofpadman notmpfs.conf > games-sports/vdrift notmpfs.conf > mail-client/thunderbird notmpfs.conf > www-client/firefox notmpfs.conf > > /etc/portage/env.d/notmpfs.conf has this entry, changing > PORTAGE_TMPDIR to real HDD space: > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/portage/tmp > > Most of these packages compile with 8 GB of space, but not with > parallel merges, like when Thunderbird and Firefox are both being > built at the same time. > > Alex > > I used to have trouble with LOo but a few versions ago, that stopped. It now compiles with 8Gbs of tmpfs. You may want to try removing it and see if you get the same results. I have also never had trouble with Firefox or icedtea but don't think I have the others installed. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!