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 C40B71382C5 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8748E0AE9; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-x242.google.com (mail-yw0-x242.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::242]) (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 50EE5E0ABA for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-x242.google.com with SMTP id b129so4057010ywa.8 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:31:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r+SfDjdi8ZEklL2SPbuoJfqfUKKvRAycgX9m8QKksr4=; b=oBuVxiPmhS+ovcspw+6paT+Jv57BhKBnxdFZCFrPtjGV1uOhJKu1MzsPkzJQNOMQGk odAnCJ2KoxukvoGsrfFfIa+0+50Rj12+M3jqvgEwUVL1NGpedyZHHk2yDjBdC1qScASI CKJ1aBEk/ORGKHnJCWZ1w1dtVUVx3kxWkAHUtVAOlyWYEI9CH8FZ2rjahIOQtc5ysH3b JQrTmQhjVSNJ4Rx+OcX0+/swAUM8ob71O7RyBjmCleH41T9DcBG1V3zFgQLbVbLZt8WK XIt1uvhPYpYdicMyG7Hj1396FBJ20kw2qH6r/e4J+ZCT3Nofq8EyY5FQNk/HE2beca4e sAPg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r+SfDjdi8ZEklL2SPbuoJfqfUKKvRAycgX9m8QKksr4=; b=R/UBJkoNCajtz8Pj9msik0ZJoEYU2f8OmB40Erp8Qb+KuM4dKB3fxvV4ZBgj6wLxYM 3IptYwaz/4ZxKTGf2SLaSS8uHumoJmzMEFGelx68vqFU6UdSWYeFKlHDGCb2G7bS1PIq gnyjUMyBHWe+31j5u6QYYlmhTNugnofasnke8bW8jrETt8tm4Y5UJTyg3WlJCTjuDG2n hoANJMJ7kXlGdapNKf8loVWcR5TMKepd5bqJ2CJqXQ9j4HZx5uttpyxtrZizvA+/QcHr 9qR+bDbVmxShc0mid/QCRJ7yW+vqCLoM5rfxK/nzfUdpIsjLlyxWPnE148XgkmEUH/lw sDYA== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPC13QtK13jWoal3UIXfJ4SKbDy3OaffpuWpzu7+yeEqGEasduhv QO6GmQPHsrem8TylE6JQSAs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x224BvRgcJGbmCtoEbNlJC1RUeqbBlvGXmICAPmWRKFPMSng19QF4baEn7INagARH+yTNIRD2GQ== X-Received: by 10.37.115.133 with SMTP id o127mr710477ybc.306.1518139875415; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-93-225.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.93.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n16sm514401ywh.105.2018.02.08.17.31.13 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:31:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /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 19:31:13 -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: 3746cd5e-5870-4173-a117-931993e434ec X-Archives-Hash: 9c908ba695159d6ee9048629706825b6 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/02/18 21:17, Dale wrote: >> 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 > > I'm on 16GB as well, with a 9GB /var/tmp/portage tmpfs, and all of the > above build fine. No need to build them on disk. > > Note that tmpfs does not consume any memory if there's no files in it! > So you can make your tmpfs larger. Here, 9GB is enough to build the > above. However, that's of course for when not using --jobs for > emering. Just regular -jN in MAKEOPTS. > > > . > What I run into a lot, Seamonkey and Firefox has a update at the same time.  Since they are both fairly large, they end up compiling at the same time which makes me run short and it fails when it runs out of space.  So, I just do them on disk and don't worry about it.  That said, those packages would likely benefit from being done on tmpfs.  As it is right now, I usually have Seamonkey, multiple profiles of Firefox running and other programs as well.  Those can easily consume half of my memory.  While tmpfs doesn't "use" anything when it is not in use, the other stuff does crowd tmpfs.  I'm hoping to upgrade to 32GBs of ram at some point.  I could use it for sure.  Dale :-)  :-)