On 21/07/2013 16:34, Jarry wrote: > On 21-Jul-13 16:31, luis jure wrote: >> >> so what i'm planning to do now is: >> >> - put swap on the SSD >> - reduce swappiness >> - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs >> >> so, do you guys think that's a good setup? > > Sounds good to me. But with 12GB RAM the question is: > Do you need swap at all? > > Jarry
yes, he does, but not for the reason most people think tmpfs is backed by swap :-) Swap was originally introduced waaaaaaaaay back in the 60s as a workaround for computers that had far less RAM than the workload strictly needed. This has not fundamentally changed in any significant way 40 years later so like you, I always favour having enough RAM. And RAM is MUCH cheaper than SSDs and requires no fiddling and tweaking to be able to use it. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
