From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9226E1382C5 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2879DE0BDB; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-x230.google.com (mail-io0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B33F9E0AE5 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:57:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io0-x230.google.com with SMTP id f89so7446100ioj.4 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:57:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=DvW7LkgV9FMDAlV4WCXT1hDT2s21pqbr767zTvpjnKM=; b=C7YJLuJk4EG0uazFbl5poKHkumtMn1IHkKcnJDoGwKue6PwtNY4ZZ9X3F8US2JfeL9 j5NavOQMwXRV3wxROGhfFzv6s4UgumsLSreeqP3YUxQDG767tuUAs6tV+xvaHQsBg4GU ms9uDnf3ApLJYe2zWp9tGtWnGfPWPbviGd0GAvvfgP8+gBMMCamwfBAVXM6vw+yapH0T ZIL8M6eOBDhmtlEsxYadSIaDfOVgVdQf/0fTp566mrxJfzHWHNt+8Tn2jVThRgbdJEOj EQAgJkJxUijei2pCHzm4o/lbAhs2uQ4Q9LX1ROfsaloaj8iST3UmTx3uVfiTAHh6lXVV 9pfQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=DvW7LkgV9FMDAlV4WCXT1hDT2s21pqbr767zTvpjnKM=; b=qbppawZoirnswtbDWx7AbyJKVU7j7DOg6qfTZoREdXwvTw3OdZ8UMlRxR+pi4CVhDu E54R8KHm3SGwTrl2vNdn3+/VflbgZMjnxAtkwyUYpW9C9RCu1gtbvEaxke6yQDa5CwsF TvxDIQB/vTY0FALjY+Mw4UGQkoL89VzVSYVTFibP7+B7zf1rU6peZhetXTqdjexe+jNU 8cG3id2JBD4bZAjDGMbLBLAW1p1xDmJItO4jZX8FKR6j6QcFP6I3168lXJEsiBDGSpNX B7/E3+GyjqzsxGx7ZthgfgM3lcH/XK0Q/SVYJObqBJvY/Wte9CpV9m3526aBOSwoHMqV d/OA== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPDxt5P5/A5D0mvWfMlZlixgugKamXciOzkdLy3LYw3Pt8onGt4+ OWlucOGcbb590xeelC5Dacc5TpOyIlRTYTZJ8FY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x225tUyBKhg/e4wFCyps/YVMEoj/ZK6/B4jiqWhqX1yFmiawz70EGSGGv4XH9FyYOARa3AoJpltHu+8Ozc/cAXT4= X-Received: by 10.107.128.154 with SMTP id k26mr916909ioi.291.1518127055041; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:57:35 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.173.227 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 13:57:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <886dc935-5bef-e683-6780-bdaf0b66c500@gmail.com> References: <886dc935-5bef-e683-6780-bdaf0b66c500@gmail.com> From: gevisz Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:57:34 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 62010386-17bb-4cdf-b62d-346386da55ec X-Archives-Hash: 6751c8555884616ed0a8a346ff240e28 2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale : > 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 > > :-) :-) >