Wols Lists wrote:
>>
>> If a tmpfs fills up, the excess gets swapped out, but with 32GB RAM here I
>> haven't yet seen any swap used at all - not even in an emerge -e world.
>
> Same here. Note that tmpfs defaults to half ram, so that would give you
> a 16GB /var/tmp/portage. With 16GB ram here, that would probably cause
> things like emerging libreoffice or firefox or gcc to abort.
Not really, libreoffice and gcc compile slowly but fine here with 3Gb RAM and
3Gb
spin-disk swap, and using PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 the system is still usable
(rebuilding world
for the profile switch right now). That's with an LXDE desktop, Gnome3 survived
only a few
months, _that_ was really unusable.
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3102960 1316120 964848 370488 821992 1123260
Swap: 3076344 91648 2984696
$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 304M 1.9M 302M 1% /run
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
$ eix -I libreoffice
[I] app-office/libreoffice
Available versions: 5.4.2.2 (~)5.4.3.2
Installed versions: 5.4.3.2
$ gcc-config -l
[1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-7.2.0 *
$ qlop -gH libreoffice | tail -n 2
libreoffice: Wed Nov 22 18:13:17 2017: 12 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds
libreoffice: 13 times
$ qlop -gH gcc | tail -n 2
gcc: Mon Dec 4 21:50:26 2017: 3 hours, 9 minutes, 7 seconds
gcc: 80 times
$ uname -a
Linux ws2912 4.14.0-gentoo #1 SMP Fri Nov 17 09:31:56 CET 2017 i686 Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4
CPU 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
