Comments on: HOWTO extend the life of Gentoo laptop

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:55:56 +0000

Cool site, love the info.

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By: ephemient

ephemient — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:10:10 +0000

My machine has permanent 2GB tmpfs mounts on /tmp and /var/tmp, and that’s never caused any problems with emerges (though big things like monolithic X would push a lot of stuff to swap).

I still don’t like how temerge breaks if it’s run in parallel with itself or emerge. It should probably create a tmpfs somewhere else, refcounted, and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR.

By: bookstack

bookstack — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:33:31 +0000

Dirk.R.Gently:

Most of the tips are inspired/shameless copied from the Gentoo Wiki, if you think it valuable, do whatever you want, honored if you could mention the source.

By: bookstack

bookstack — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:30:34 +0000

Menelkir:

Thanks for your comment. I would take a look how to fine tune the performance of reiserfs, and keep this updated.

By: bookstack

bookstack — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:28:17 +0000

ephemient:

It would cost more than 600M capacity to emerge some huge packages like kdelibs. If /var/tmp/portage is permanently mounted, we could not capitalize the memory.

By: Dirk.R.Gently

Dirk.R.Gently — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:57:20 +0000

Thank your very much. I wasn’t aware of using a tempfs, good tip. I’m not sure how much compiling I’ll be doing away from a power source though ;). Have you thought to add these ideas to the Power Management Wiki?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Power_Management