On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start > > swapping like mad? > > No; the tmpfs runs out of space, and the build fails. Had that happen > with Thunderbird, and thus ended my usage of tmpfs for /var/tmp.
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter number 5290
