On Saturday 23 February 2013 06:23:59 Joseph wrote: > I have 8Gb of RAM so I change it to: > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs > size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 > > now it is going.
I think you've confused yourself. /var/tmp/portage is portage's working sandbox - where it does all its work while emerging packages. Its size has nothing to do with how much RAM you have, only how much space portage needs to work in. We used to be advised to allocate swap space equal to half the RAM size, but those days are long gone. Here's what I have defined as swap: $ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sdb3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 The idea is to use the two 2G partitions (sdx3) for most operations and to bring in the two 20G partitions (sdx7) when doing some heavy lifting. I should really at least halve both of those sizes, but what the hell? Space is cheap and I don't need it for anything else pro tem. -- Peter
