hi all, i recently started working on illumos-gate and ran into a small meanness that's probably worth a note in the docs.
the filesystem i created for gate is generous and i have plenty ram so i keep swap small. that's working fine because i never run out of ram. the nightly script however uses /tmp quite a lot and hence needs some space there. now the meanness is that by default /tmp does neither use the ram nor the "regular" rpool's filesystem but swap. as you can imagine, my first build attempts crashed spectacularly. so i would suggest to add a friendly warning to the docs that building gate needs at least 4gb swap. no matter how much ram you have. in my opinion the better way would be to not use /tmp but keep the temp files to a folder alongside the gate folder. that way the issue would be gone and the space needs would be constrained to wherever gate is located. -- R-A-C Götz T. Fischer CertIT&Comp +49(0)7225/98 98 79 [email protected] r-a-c.de ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T5d96b425786a2696-Mcc656dc473032d8492f26536 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
