Am 21.01.2014 18:03, schrieb Jarry: > Hi Gentoo-users, > > I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation > to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not > guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, > if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server > lowers buffers/cache to nearly zero and starts swapping... > > So what do your think? Would it be enought to have 512MB > for packages like GCC, Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, Bind? > These are the biggest, rest are much smaller... > > Jarry
4GB and instead of a SSD, see that you get 8 or 16GB of ECC ram.
