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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 17:37:59 Hans Müller wrote:
> 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

Thanks again for all the advice received.  I've added a few swap files to bring 
swap up to 1206984k and libxul.so was finally built and installed without 
bringing the machine to its knees.  :-)

It seems that with time applications are getting bigger than what they used to 
be.
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Regards,
Mick

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