On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey > > > > <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at > >>> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds > >>> things up even more ;) > >> > >> The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, > >> as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping. > > > > In my experience if it starts swapping, that is much slower than just > > using disk for /tmp in the first place. YMMV :) > > My thought was that at least portage wouldn't stop the compile when it > ran out of room. I usually put /var on a separate partition and always > forget that OOo needs some space. I usually don't give it enough the > first time around. Doesn't OOo need about 4 or 5Gbs now? > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Yes, provided you don't have "debugging" enabled for the resulting code. Apparently, that doubles the required size. -- Joost
