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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:04:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111191704.29179.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1923565.CFlCjsN4RG@localhost>

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On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 15:57:58 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am Samstag 19 November 2011, 14:42:07 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> > On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote:
> > > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > >> On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote:
> > >>> I've changed the title ever so slightly.  I am getting an out of
> > >>> memory
> > >>> error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the
> > >>> kernel.
> > >>> 
> > >>> The error as far as firefox is concerned is the same.  Is this a
> > >>> firefox bug, or is my decrepit old laptop incapable of compiling
> > >>> Firefox ...
> > >>> 
> > >>> Am I the only one suffering from this?
> > >> 
> > >> How much RAM do you have?  How big if your swap?
> > > 
> > > # free
> > > 
> > >               total       used       free     shared
> > >               buffers     cached>
> > > 
> > > Mem:        640392     133084     507308          0      81360
> > > 23972
> > > -/+ buffers/cache:      27752     612640
> > > Swap:       257004       6156     250848
> > > 
> > > May not be much by today's standards, but I never had an out of memory
> > > error that I can recall just compiling packages in the past.
> > 
> > You have 640MB RAM and 256MB swap.  That isn't nearly enough to compile
> > big packages nowadays.
> > 
> > You can try to increase your swap partition from 256MB to 3GB.  However,
> > hitting the swap during a compile is going to strangle your system.  To
> > maximize available RAM, logout of the desktop first, then shutdown the
> > 
> > graphical environment entirely:
> >    /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> > 
> > and then compile.  Start the desktop again after that:
> >    /etc/init.d/xdm start
> > 
> > Modern versions of GCC and binutils are quite memory hungry, so your
> > only real option is to add more RAM.  You should have at least 2GB of it
> > these days for a Gentoo system.
> 
> makeopts -j1 helps too.

Thanks guys.

From your comments it seems that it's been touch & go so far.  This is an old 
PIII laptop which I have been keeping up to date without any problems until 
now.  OOo was never emerged on this machine, I have always used ooo-bin.  I 
did emerge chromium though (early versions) and have not had problems with 
gcc.

Perhaps the latest Firefox broke its back.  Will try again to emerge it with -
j1 and see if it makes a difference or if that fails I will add a swap file to 
give it some breathing space.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-19 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17  6:53 [gentoo-user] Out of memory error on gentoo kernel 3.0.6 Mick
2011-11-18 17:42 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error Mick
2011-11-19  9:13   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-19 11:29     ` Mick
2011-11-19 12:25       ` Michael Mol
2011-11-19 13:08         ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-19 17:37           ` Hans Müller
2011-11-20 18:48             ` Mick
2011-11-20 19:31               ` Dale
2011-11-19 12:42       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-19 15:57         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-11-19 17:04           ` Mick [this message]

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