On Dienstag 07 Juli 2009, Frank Peters wrote: > After reading through the thread on this list about the benefits > of mounting PORTAGE_TMPDIR as tmpfs, I decided that I will be doing > this mount from now on. My total RAM is 4G, but since I only "emerge > world" about once per week, I can easily set aside temporarily 2G or more > for this purpose. > > However, after doing some more reading, I find that some people recommend > mounting tmpfs using the option nr_inodes=1M, while others just accept > the default value for nr_inodes. > > To me, setting maximum inodes to 1M seems a bit high. Can emerge actually > generate that many temporary files? Would it be safer and also avoid > swapping to set nr_inodes=1M or is the default good enough?. > > Frank Peters
I am using tempfs for a long time now - and I never set nr_inodes. tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs rw,size=4G 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=1G 0 0 (I have 6gb ram)
