On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 15:10, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > I'm on ext4 with delayed allocation enabled, but I still see GUI lock-ups > when emerging without tmpfs (and I do have nice 19 and ionice idle). There > are a few lock-ups even with tmpfs, but not as severe as without it. But I > do have 6GB RAM. Not sure if 2GB will be enough since if you're running X > and have apps open (Firefox, etc), RAM might get pretty tight and tmpfs will > swap out to disk.
My work's quad system has 6GB RAM as well and I have 2GB permanently allocated in /var/tmp Best thing I ever did, I can actually emerge while using KVM without watching slideshows :) -- Alex Alexander || wired Gentoo QT && KDE Herd Tester http://www.linuxized.com
