On Wednesday 31 May 2017 12:36:37 Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2017 11:07:03 +0100
>
> Mick wrote:
> > Did you also have zbud enabled at the time?
>
> Historical kernel configs say yes:
>
> xzcat /root/kernels/04.04.26-gentoo/2016-11-30-23-33-29_success.xz | grep
> -E "Z(SWAP|BUD)" CON
On Sun, 28 May 2017 11:07:03 +0100
Mick wrote:
> Did you also have zbud enabled at the time?
Historical kernel configs say yes:
xzcat /root/kernels/04.04.26-gentoo/2016-11-30-23-33-29_success.xz | grep -E
"Z(SWAP|BUD)"
CONFIG_ZSWAP=y
CONFIG_ZBUD=y
Though I should mention there are other issu
On Friday 26 May 2017 10:36:40 Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2017 15:45:45 +0300
>
> Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > - smaller CPU overhead: not every i/o is being compressed, e.g. if
> > there is sill enough RAM available it is used without compression
> > overhead as usual, but if memory is
On Wed, 24 May 2017 15:45:45 +0300
Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> - smaller CPU overhead: not every i/o is being compressed, e.g. if
> there is sill enough RAM available it is used without compression
> overhead as usual, but if memory is not enough, swapped out pages
> are being compressed instead of
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
>
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM, wrote:
> Either way, it'd be nice if someone actually benchmarked this.
>
I don't have exhaustive benchmarks but moving PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a
t
Hi,
On Wed, 24 May 2017 05:34:09 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no
> > advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like
> > ext3, because the files there are
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:43 AM, wrote:
> On 17-05-24 at 05:34, Rich Freeman wrote:
> [..]
>> Others have mentioned zram. I've used it, but unless something has
>> changed one of its limitations is that it can't give up memory. That
>> is less of an issue if you're using swap since it can be sw
On 17-05-24 at 05:34, Rich Freeman wrote:
[..]
> Others have mentioned zram. I've used it, but unless something has
> changed one of its limitations is that it can't give up memory. That
> is less of an issue if you're using swap since it can be swapped out
> if idle. However, if you're not usin
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no
> advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like
> ext3, because the files there are normally so small that they will stay
> in the page cache 100% of the
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:16:56PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
>
> I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no
> advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like
> ext3, because the files there ar
On 17-05-23 at 22:16, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
I use an ext4 partition backed by zram. Gives me ~3x compression on the
things I normally have lying around there (plain text files) and ensures
that anything I throw there (or programs throw th
So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no
advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like
ext3, because the files there are normally so small that they will stay
in the page cache 100% of the tim
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