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gary987
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| This is a hog... I keep a 1G tmpfs ... not big enough for it.. here's hoping 1.5G is.. |
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enderandrew
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| FastTurtle wrote: | Funkyade:
Interesting Tip that I'll have to try (got 4GB) by doing a world rebuild. Will let you know how it works with kdeenablefinal in make.conf using monolithic builds instead of split packages. |
Openoffice might break it. I thought I read that Openoffice needs 5 gigs to build.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| enderandrew wrote: | | FastTurtle wrote: | Funkyade:
Interesting Tip that I'll have to try (got 4GB) by doing a world rebuild. Will let you know how it works with kdeenablefinal in make.conf using monolithic builds instead of split packages. |
Openoffice might break it. I thought I read that Openoffice needs 5 gigs to build. |
The ebuild actually checks for that and if it doesn't see that 5GB will error out the ebuild.
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Cyker
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Do we still need to do this?
I notice that the more recent versions of portage support a envar called PORTAGE_TMPFS which by default points to /dev/shm, a notorious standard tmpfs location.
The wording in the make.conf.example (The only documentation I can find for this var!) makes it sound like emerge will use the tmpfs location pointed to automatically? |
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likewhoa
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyker wrote: | Do we still need to do this?
I notice that the more recent versions of portage support a envar called PORTAGE_TMPFS which by default points to /dev/shm, a notorious standard tmpfs location.
The wording in the make.conf.example (The only documentation I can find for this var!) makes it sound like emerge will use the tmpfs location pointed to automatically? |
not if you set that variable, just edit your /etc/fstab and you're good to go. |
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ChojinDSL
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: |
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Having TMP in Ram sounds like a great idea. Wouldnt it be way better though if portage supported this directly.
e.g, by having something like
RAMBUILD=Yes
RAMBUILDSIZE=1G
in "FEATURES" in the make.conf.
So basically portage should try to compile anything in ram as long as it fits into the size you determine, and if its too big, it automatically uses HD space. |
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Cyker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| Is that not what the PORTAGE_TMPFS thing I talked about does??? |
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likewhoa
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyker wrote: | | Is that not what the PORTAGE_TMPFS thing I talked about does??? |
yes, but you still need to specify the RAM size in your /etc/fstab. |
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Cyker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| likewhoa wrote: | | Cyker wrote: | | Is that not what the PORTAGE_TMPFS thing I talked about does??? |
yes, but you still need to specify the RAM size in your /etc/fstab. |
Sorry, yeah I get that; I was replying to ChojinDSL's idea (As it already implemented \o/)
EDIT: Oh, wait, you actually HAVE to set a RAM size in fstab or it won't work...??
Because I just tried the PORTAGE_TMPFS= and it didn't do a thing...
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StringCheesian
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Except it still doesn't intelligently avoid cases where the package would overflow allocated space. OpenOffice may check that 5g is available, but other ebuilds don't. It can't ever be a set it and forget it type thing until this is solved.
I think the ideal would be a special tmpfs that overflows into a directory or a growing file instead of swap. |
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likewhoa
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| nothing wrong with swap.. and if a package fails most people should just know to comment the make.conf variable to resume without tmpfs support. |
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likewhoa
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyker wrote: | | likewhoa wrote: | | Cyker wrote: | | Is that not what the PORTAGE_TMPFS thing I talked about does??? |
yes, but you still need to specify the RAM size in your /etc/fstab. |
Sorry, yeah I get that; I was replying to ChojinDSL's idea (As it already implemented \o/)
EDIT: Oh, wait, you actually HAVE to set a RAM size in fstab or it won't work...??
Because I just tried the PORTAGE_TMPFS= and it didn't do a thing... |
you will have to umount /dev/shm, edit fstab with size option then remount it for it to take effect. |
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StringCheesian
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| likewhoa wrote: | | nothing wrong with swap.. and if a package fails most people should just know to comment the make.conf variable to resume without tmpfs support. |
Swap is usually a lot smaller, and a lot of time can be wasted before you find out you'll need to restart. |
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waterloo2005
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when I emerge gentoo-sources , i fint it use above 300M . I set it to 512M
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waterloo2005
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when i emerge texlive 2008, it use mem more than 512M. so it gets error.
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wklam
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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I have been using this tips. I have 3GB of RAM.
My /etc/fstab:
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# tmpfs for for portage to compile in RAM.
none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs nr_inodes=1M 0 0
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When do "df", I usually have 1.5GB of /var/tmp/portage
Today I finally tested the limit with the following package in portage. emerge was out of space for /var/tmp/portage.
x11-misc/openclipart
I had to umount /var/tmp/portage temporarily and let it uncompress on actual harddisk.
-William |
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gonaked
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: Thanks for the tip! |
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| Thanks for the tip! I'm using it. Hard drives have longer life now. Thanks again! |
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