On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21-Jan-14 18:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:03:08 +0100, Jarry wrote: >> >>> I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation >>> to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not >>> guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, >>> if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server >>> lowers buffers/cache to nearly zero and starts swapping... >> >> >> Then don't use more than 512MB, I certainly wouldn't use less for the >> packages you mention. > > > OMG, I was really over-optimistic! Even 2 GB tmpfs for > /var/tmp/portage was not enough to re-compile gcc-4.7.3!
You can configure emerge to build large packages outside of the tmpfs drive. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs HTH -- David Abbott (dabbott)
