On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira <[email protected]> wrote: > ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not > interested currently. > My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll create an 8gb ramdisk > on it to increase emerge performance. Other than that, I'm pretty > happy with my system performance, disabling swap and compositing > effects (remember, open source radeon drivers, I might try fglrx again > but I really liked KMS) did the trick.
8GB isn't enough for some packages. Though putting it on top of zram might work. I don't know how you'd calculate the free space, though, and portage would check in advance. -- :wq
