On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > I have portages work directory on tmpfs and it works fine. I don't have it > set to a specific amount so it uses whatever it needs. It even works fine > with LOo. I have 16Gbs in all but it rarely uses more than 4Gbs. Of > course, I don't just sit here and watch it either. I start my updates and > usually go to bed.
Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB. What do you have for mount options in fstab? I used to put portage's work directory on tmpfs, but I had to stop when LO ran out of space in a pre-check, IIRC. Now I have it on top of a RAID5 it shares with /home. -- :wq
