Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Managing CPU usage when doing emerges

[Branko Badrljica]

Nikos Chantziaras 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.
>
I have /var/tmp on ext4 with delayed allocation on ext4 and 8GB RAM.
For me tmpfs wasn't worth the hassle, so i dropped it. I couldn't tell
the difference.
I am using that setup on notebook also ( Dell Inspiron 1720 with 4GB RAM
and 2x250GB disks in RAID-0), where it works very well...