From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85231381F3 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCA29E0A8B; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com (mail-we0-f169.google.com [74.125.82.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DD6CE0A8B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id n57so7133720wev.28 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:37:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A/cwdBOejvhFhrRXFKme79/+3WjPO3cq49VKNG7vFso=; b=cdEd9Z31Uk/OrRo2SnP8EjPky8SKpFRfLlvFsGFst6yH+u6kZS2OP2bPvh73d+0AIe Peeh7i5Q5PfyCrTbSH6gUW2qI3KBu4w6UtbU7rK6SyETTxtqfIU16mdeKgUsMH/95Ued Kd3pv6nealBdzVCga0NgGY/j7+gtHn+Qv4AGzGzm79l9TxrX3MOcTLl6qnWRidkT8ac2 TztX6jUO0sRh7yrjOzRyS8ar3yCN3KUX6qV214lMsK/QO6tnfaqsd9tEnTfJ8TH0tulb UhD5hazItGO/55IIV5WhDGGUhZT2b97laMXQMQpcb30wVCAiReGZZDxOqIDYsP5ipjRj EPqg== X-Received: by 10.180.96.133 with SMTP id ds5mr37807867wib.24.1373553429788; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (41-133-146-133.dsl.mweb.co.za. [41.133.146.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id nb12sm73849130wic.7.2013.07.11.07.37.07 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Andrew Gaylard Message-ID: <51DEC311.3020605@computer.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:37:05 +0200 From: Andrew Gaylard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS sun4u; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130622 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited References: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> <518D6422.2050506@spamcop.net> <518D750C.2060004@gt.rr.com> <1368226517.12026.12.camel@n-its-7of9.mcis.washington.edu> <518DA70B.1030409@gt.rr.com> <518DCFCD.5020008@spamcop.net> <518EA5F6.4090600@gt.rr.com> <518EFEC6.1040301@spamcop.net> <5192EB61.1030900@gt.rr.com> <519E6A25.7010204@gt.rr.com> <519E708C.40102@spamcop.net> <51DE1B6C.3030302@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <51DE1B6C.3030302@gt.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2b42a102-70ff-4189-82da-9379324b4621 X-Archives-Hash: 0b1120cad02b45386473fed271955441 On 07/11/13 04:41, Don Wilburn wrote: > A couple weeks ago, I reported that emerge gentoo-sources was failing. > It magically worked once, so I quit yapping. > > This was in the context of a fresh install, from the Gentoo CD boot. > The fix seems to be enabling a swap device, which I don't think is in > the instructions. > > It was a fluke that I came to this conclusion, but it works. > I switched to a second PWS500 (almost identical) to eliminate crazy > hardware as a possibility. > I didn't think portage/emerge was such a hog that 256MB RAM was too > little. BTW, my first machine had 384MB. > > I'm not going to formally report this as a bug, but I think something > is wrong. Maybe it only affects weakling Alphas like mine? > I don't follow the alternative architectures forum. Maybe if someone > shows up there with this problem, you can suggest swapon. > > Adios, DW > I haven't seen any error messages, but in today's world, it's really a good idea to run GCC with at least 1GB of (virtual) memory. My alpha has 512MB, so I make sure that my swap is 2GB. I strongly recommend you do likewise, disk space permitting. -- Andrew