Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

["Hans Müller" <mcbeagle@gmx.de>]

On Saturday, 19. November 2011 20:08:36 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 2011 7:28 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And, finally, yeah..that isn't just "not much", that's a terribly small
> > amount of memory. Assuming you've kept the software current, some of your
> > applications have certainly not been maintained with 600MB of system
> > memory in mind.
> 
> Indeed. With less than 800MB, gcc fails to upgrade. Always. For some
> RAM-constrained systems (e.g. the VMs in my company's cloud), I even have
> to do an "out-of-the-box" upgrade, i.e., upgrade an identical copy on the
> physical data center, grab the binpkg tarball, and upload the tarball to
> the cloud.

If you provide enough swap this shouldn't be an issue.
I have a box running Xen dom0 with 680MB RAM and 1.5GB swap and it compiles 
everything fine so far.
Of course I didn't emerge firefox, libreoffice or similar packages on this 
system, but at least for gcc this is fine.

Best regards