On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > 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.
Possible. With 6-8GB of RAM, I've generally not needed it. -- :wq
