tmp and tmpfs

[John Kennedy]

I found that my choke point was relinking the kernel during the build.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:22:33PM +0000, tech-lists wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:25:19AM +0000, Robert Crowston wrote:
> >It?ll be significantly faster in memory, it depends if you want to
> >spare the ram.
> >
> >How many temporary files do you have?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure ;)
> 
> I'm not even sure how much space I'll need. Think I'll just have 
> to test and see. The pi4 isn't used for xorg at all, though things 
> like mutt and imapsync might use tmp a lot. On a desktop running 
> kf5-plasma/firefox and all the trimmings, tmp stands at 8.1GB
> and the system was rebooted only a couple days ago. The pi4
> has just finished building world/kernel and tmp is 282k.
> 
> Maybe set it to 1GB. I was wondering really if memory pressure 
> pushes this to swap, if there would be slowdown more significant 
> overall than if /tmp was just on zfs