Aragorn wrote:
> Darin McBride wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> I used `eclean --destructive distfiles` to clean, but it's not really
>>> deleting anything. Is it safe to simply `rm -rf
>>> /usr/portage/distfiles/*` as well as `rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*`? Those
>>> two directory trees eat about 1GB right now.
>> While it's safe, I wouldn't clear out distfiles. /var/tmp/portage,
>> however, is safe as long as you don't have a current emerge running ;-)
> If you (and/or the OP) have a sufficient amount of RAM in your system, you
> could then make */var/tmp/portage* a /tmpfs./ It's what I do, but then
> again, that system has 32 GB of RAM in it, so your mileage may vary. ;-)

There are some packages that requires a lot of free RAM memory to compile,
like OpenOffice (think that one may be one of the worst).


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//Aho