From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Mount /tmp as tmpfs?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 13:20:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po1t9plz.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180518105322.32gkwuvxqxis6fae@abyayala>
Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:
> Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 998 bytes:
>>
>> I was wondering if it's commendable to mount /tmp as tmpfs with GuixSD.
>> I think it could be useful to speed up Guix builds.
>
> Guix maybe, for a developer system you run out of RAM for everything
> that has serious demands in RAM and/or Diskspace for building.
>
> If waste of writes is your concern, getting a separate disk for
> /tmp is a good choice. As long as you don't have to build big
> applications from source/without substitutes tmpfs is alright.
>
> Been there, tried that and considered it now only for machines that
> will never build anything big.
Well yes, my tmpfs works perfectly, but I forgot to say that I have 128G
RAM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-18 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-17 17:03 Mount /tmp as tmpfs? Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-17 18:21 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-17 18:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-18 10:53 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-18 11:20 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2018-05-18 11:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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