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Re: Mount /tmp as tmpfs?
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Clément Lassieur |
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Re: Mount /tmp as tmpfs? |
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Fri, 18 May 2018 13:20:56 +0200 |
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Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:
> Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 998 bytes:
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>> 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.