Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote: >> Duncan, you talk about tmpfs and I'm suddenly interested in trying this >> out. My question is, how much space do you allocate for the tmpfs? I >> know it'll fall back to swap if I'm out of space there, but what works >> well for you? I have (currently) 1GB RAM on this system, but I'm >> getting ready to order more to get me to 4GB. > > > 2gb. That is enough for almost everything. Not enough for openoffice. > tmpfs 2,0G 3,2M 2,0G 1% /var/tmp/portage > tmpfs 1,0G 116K 1,0G 1% /tmp
I have tmpfs setup with no limit on a 3GB (4GB, really, but it's x86) no-swap system, and it works very well; OpenOffice and xulrunner-1.9 being the only things I can recall that won't build in that config. On a VM with only 512MB RAM, recently, I enabled tmpdir immediately after getting stage3 up, and found that I had ran out of space building only: - gcc-4.1.2 - glibc (whatever current x86 stable is) - xorg-server-1.3.?? (this was *just* before xorg-1.5) - emacs-22.1 -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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