From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Subject: Re: Mount /tmp as tmpfs? Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 13:20:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87po1t9plz.fsf@lassieur.org> References: <87y3gigqp8.fsf@gmail.com> <20180518105322.32gkwuvxqxis6fae@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJdRY-0006A4-8N for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 07:21:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJdRT-0003g0-7c for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 07:21:04 -0400 Received: from mail.lassieur.org ([83.152.10.219]:38222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJdRS-0003cc-SK for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 07:20:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180518105322.32gkwuvxqxis6fae@abyayala> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Nils Gillmann Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" Nils Gillmann 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.