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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration
From: Mick <michaelkintzios () gmail ! com>
Date: 2013-07-21 7:13:21
Message-ID: 201307210813.32682.michaelkintzios () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 06:12:40 Dale wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>> Stop using disk and build in RAM:
> >>>
> >>> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs
> >>> size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm
> >>> tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
> >>>
> >>> workstation ~ # free -m
> >>>
> >>> total used free shared buffers
> >>> cached
> >>>
> >>> Mem: 15798 3711 12087 0 0
> >>> 937 -/+ buffers/cache: 2772 13025
> >>> Swap: 8103 0 8103
> >>
> >> He may not have enough to do that tho. Some folks only have 4Gbs or
> >> less still. That won't be enough for LOo. Heck, my 16Gbs wasn't enough
> >> at one time. I had to either let it be on HDD or set it to a higher
> >> amount than the default half.
> >>
> >> I also tested the time difference once before, it didn't really make
> >> much difference. It just saves wear on a drive is all.
> >>
> >> Dale
> >
> > If 16GB of RAM wasn't enough, ydiw. I've used that line of 7G forever,
> > and run app-office/libreoffice, as well as firefox and some other big
> > app (forget it's name) and _never_ had a problem.
>
> Well, a while back, OOo and LOo wanted more than 8Gbs. It wasn't my
> need but what portage looked for. Then someone did some changes and
> reduced that need and it worked. From my understanding, there was some
> code clean up that helped in that. I think it looks for 6Gbs now. From
> the ebuild:
>
> CHECKREQS_MEMORY="512M"
> CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="6G"
>
> It used to be more than that. If it didn't have enough, it stopped.
> Even when I would override that setting, it would still run out of space
> more often than not. As a matter of fact, I still have the command in
> my freq used commands file that I used to fix it:
>
> mount -t tmpfs -o size=12g tmpfs /var/tmp/portage
Does it stop dead or does it start to page into swap?
--
Regards,
Mick
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