Mark Haney wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
I agree, I use /dev/shm (4gigs) for my portage tmpdir and it has had a
bigger noticeable speed impact than ccache or niceness, and the
silence of zero disk activity (other than reading the distfiles in the
unpack stage and installing the compiled files) is n
Alex Alexander wrote:
> you would need a separate partition for /var/tmp/portage with special
> settings to be safe... even then, if you can afford the ram, tmpfs is
> probably a better solution.
>
>
I use such settings on my machine all the time, with no problems
whatsoever until now.
It just
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 15:52, Branko Badrljica wrote:
> Alex Alexander wrote:
>
>> most packages build fine with a 768M tmpfs :)
>> if you plan on compiling big stuff like gcc you'll need to make it
>> larger or unmount it though.
>>
>>
> With ext4 useable, is it still practicall to fiddle with t
Branko Badrljica wrote:
> With ext4 useable, is it still practicall to fiddle with thmfs for
> building ?
>
EDIT: Typo- thms -->tmpfs
Alex Alexander wrote:
> most packages build fine with a 768M tmpfs :)
> if you plan on compiling big stuff like gcc you'll need to make it
> larger or unmount it though.
>
>
With ext4 useable, is it still practicall to fiddle with thmfs for
building ?
Ext4 can be configured so that it defers wr
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 14:44, Mark Haney wrote:
> I would do this, however, my problem is (or was) RAM. Until yesterday I
> had only 1GB RAM in this laptop. Now I have doubled it which is the max
> it will support (it's 4 years old). I don't think 2GB is worth trying a
> tmpfs for.
most packa
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Richard Freeman wrote:
>> I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might
>> find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a tmpfs
>> for /var/tmp/portage. Note that depending on what you're buil
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Richard Freeman wrote:
>
> I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might
> find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a tmpfs
> for /var/tmp/portage. Note that depending on what you're building you might
> need a
Mark Haney wrote:
Is there another way to use nice, or to fix that problem? Or another
way to manage CPU usage during an emerge?
I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might
find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a
tmpfs for /var/tmp/
On Montag 18 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
> Wil Reichert wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney
wrote:
> >> I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind.
> >> Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc,
> >> part of that is just
Wil Reichert wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
>> I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind.
>> Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc,
>> part of that is just too much else to do.
>>
>> The problem I've encount
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind.
> Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc,
> part of that is just too much else to do.
>
> The problem I've encountered is when I try to do an
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