On Monday 06 November 2006 15:51, Duncan wrote:
> If you have bios entries for configuring it [...] we could try to work
> thru it.
I don't have those BIOS controls I'm afraid.
> Here, as I'm the only human user, I don't have to be [...] strict on
> security. To keep things simple, /var/tmp is a symlink to /tmp, so I
> don't have to worry about a tmpfs for both dirs. You'll want to set the
> following in make.conf:
>
> PKG_TMPDIR
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR
> PORTAGE_TMPFS
I decided on an even simpler approach. As I don't really want all the other
stuff in /var/tmp to evaporate every time I shut down, I put /tmp on
tmpfs, with this entry in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=85% 0 0
Then I added these entries to /etc/make.conf:
BUILD_PREFIX="/tmp/portage/build" # not sure I need this
CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache" # to make sure it doesn't go looking in
/tmp
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
> Note that setting [PORTAGE_TMPFS] to a small, say 50 meg, tmpfs, is useful
> even if you aren't setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs. It's used for
> quick/small stuff like lockfiles and the like. The portage docs suggest
> setting it to /dev/shm, an LSB standard location for such things. I have
> a separate (max 50 meg as I said) tmpfs mounted at /dev/shm and followed
> the recommendation to point PORTAGE_TMPFS at it.
Where did you find this recommendation? I can't find any reference to it.
> Of course, you'll only need PKG_TMPDIR if you have FEATURES=buildpkg set
> or otherwise deal with binary packages.
Same question.
> The disk spends most of its time idle, and you can watch the disk activity
> light and tell when the kernel's cache flush writes kick in, as it blinks
> red a couple times every few seconds.
My SATA disks don't show up on the disk activity LED, but I do have gkrellm
permanently on my desktop and it shows disk activity. I'll watch it with
interest :-)
Thanks for the help.
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Rgds
Peter
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