gevisz wrote: > I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a try. > > I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. > > Do I correctly understood https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs > that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so > that the chromium > could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set > notmpfs.conf > for chromium and the likes. > > And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just > /var/tmp/portage > Is it ok? > >
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 Those are the ones that tend to run into space problems. Keep in mind, I have twice the memory you have. As someone else pointed out, if you start using swap, that generally defeats the purpose of tmpfs. While I'm sure plenty of packages will make good use of portage being on tmpfs, there will be quite a few that will have space problems. You will need to be ready to make exceptions for those as they show up but those in my list are certainly ones that you may want to add before trying. There could be exceptions to this based on your habits and memory requirements for other things but that is my experience so far. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
