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[65.0.93.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w143sm510694ywg.104.2018.02.08.17.35.12 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:35:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <886dc935-5bef-e683-6780-bdaf0b66c500@gmail.com> From: Dale Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 19:35:12 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.6.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 41095a6f-c396-420f-9536-da6daba81425 X-Archives-Hash: bba6ff270ee786dbed3b51dcf6376ad7 gevisz wrote: > 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 >> >> :-) :-) >> You will likely find that you will get some interesting ideas from several posts and then have to bring them together to work for you.  Sometimes, you have to mix and match to find what works for you.  If nothing else, sometimes I post something just in case it may give a person a light bulb moment with a idea that no one even thought to post, including me.  Sometimes just having a start point helps.  Heck, we all started from nothing when it comes to Gentoo.  Some of us have been around long enough to learn a lot but forget what we learned.  ROFL  Dale :-)  :-)