On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:08:40AM +0100, Robert Arroyo wrote: > > YMMV, but I almost never need to reemerge anything, so I do rm * in > > /usr/portage/distfiles and rm -r * in /var/tmp/portage after any round > > of updates. It's worked for me for several years now. > > > And what about doing /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage/distfiles tmpfs? > Could it be a good idea? > You'd need a lot of swap to make sure that /var/tmp/portage didn't run out when building things like X, KDE OOo, etc, but it might cut down on the disk thrashing; putting /usr/portage/distfiles on tmpfs doesn't seem to get you much - it'll only clear it on reboot after all, so you might as well have an init script do it. Best thing might be something akin to one of the /tmp cleaners that would remove anything not used in a couple of days or so.
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