On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:57:24 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Actually, portage looks for enough space before even starting and > > still does. However, when I force it to ignore it, it stops and says > > it ran out of space. I'd just rather it didn't use swap anyway. > > Either way, OOo and LOo used to need lots of space. I think there > > was some code cleanup and maybe some other changes that reduced that > > a lot. I think there was also some gcc changes to but not sure on > > that. > > > > I did some more searching after my last post, at one point it looked > > for at least 12GBs from what I found. That was the largest setting I > > found. > > Right, so running /var/tmp/portage on a tmpfs definitely won't work on > an old box of mine with only a few MB of memory.
It will, because it starts to use swap, but then there's no benefit to using tmpfs in the first place. What I used to do on my netbook was run tmpfs for /tmp and have PORTAGE_TMPDIR use that by default but set specific packages to use a different, on disk, location % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf ]% cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" where /mnt/scratch is a directory I use for all sorts of non-permanent files. -- Neil Bothwick The truth shall make you free, but first it shall piss you off.
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