On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at > /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds > things up even more ;)
The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping. Actually, now that I check again, I see I've raised the size to 16G: $ grep 16G /etc/fstab tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=16G 0 0 $ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sdb3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdX3 are 2GB and /dev/sdX7 are 20GB (probably far too much swap, but disks are cheap). -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
