On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:47:39 Kent Hagebrand wrote: > Yes, I use tmpfs on /vat/tmp/portage to reduce the disk i/o on my laptop. > Here is the line I use in the /etc/fstab: > > none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs nr_inodes=1M,size=2G 0 0 > > This will allow the directory /var/tmp/portage to use at most 2GB of > memory (I have 4GB). > It is enough to compile most of the packages in portage.
I compile in /tmp which is tmpfs, and I was thinking of /var/run as tmpfs On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:29:19 Florian Philipp wrote: > /var as tmpfs is not a good idea. There are lots of persistent files in > there. If you want to be standard-conformant, you cannot even mount > /var/tmp as tmpfs because its content is also meant to survive reboots. > You can still do it though and mounting /tmp as tmpfs is completely okay. > > Your choice of filesystem has little or no effect. You could proably > argue that JFS needs less CPU resources than for example ReiserFS but > that really doesn't matter. > > What you really want is app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools. > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp with reiserfs, the disk is said to run all over the time ! -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc
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