Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

[gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
> gevisz wrote:
>> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a try.
>>
>> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition.
>>
>> Do I correctly understood https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs
>> that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so
>> that the chromium
>> could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set notmpfs.conf
>> for chromium and the likes.
>>
>> And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just
>> /var/tmp/portage
>> Is it ok?
>
> I have 16GBs of memory here and have /var/tmp/portage/ on tmpfs, no
> ccache.  With the growing size of packages, I've had to put several on
> regular spinning rust to make sure enough space is available.  This is
> my list, so far.
>
> www-client/firefox
> www-client/seamonkey
> app-office/libreoffice
> sys-devel/gcc
> dev-qt/qtwebengine
> dev-qt/qtwebkit

Thank you for your reply and the notmpfs exception list.
I think it would be helpfull not only for me.

> Those are the ones that tend to run into space problems.  Keep in mind,
> I have twice the memory you have.  As someone else pointed out, if you
> start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs.
>
> While I'm sure plenty of packages will make good use of portage being on
> tmpfs, there will be quite a few that will have space problems.  You
> will need to be ready to make exceptions for those as they show up but
> those in my list are certainly ones that you may want to add before
> trying.  There could be exceptions to this based on your habits and
> memory requirements for other things but that is my experience so far.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>