On Saturday 11 Feb 2017 05:22:19 Dale wrote:

> The biggest reason I needed to do this is that I usually have portage's
> work directory on tmpfs.  I just don't have enough memory to do them all
> at the same time, one at a time would work tho.  If I ever get around to
> upgrading to 32GBs, then this won't matter.

When your tmpfs fills up, it starts paging to swap, so as long as your swap 
partition is big enough it should be about the same as using the hard disk.

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Regards
Peter


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