On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at >> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds >> things up even more ;) > > The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, > as I have. When it gets too full it just starts swapping.
In my experience if it starts swapping, that is much slower than just using disk for /tmp in the first place. YMMV :)
