From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RSCXX-0003Np-Cs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:54:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78B8021C28A; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEBF21C275 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf27 with SMTP id 27so7959604wwf.10 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:48:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=VH7jk0Kf/5l6vP7jV+t87gZ34GJDxLhqfnAB7eUC+z0=; b=UD5wQdxnZBadBtMVNftye7afYSCiZ/s6cuTyLJHuxbN+w97jHDvCupBI7+m4Fse4wX dY5FkE5MwPFMeeoV8l+mMpxiDAGqMjGiF7QG+iv085Wsd5m4i+JMzITlS4BtwYhkfheR RWUPtDrFNHdLN3JZiRZD1OYifL3vcSEw+vrxA= Received: by 10.216.229.27 with SMTP id g27mr1608990weq.67.1321814928252; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n2sm3940433wiz.16.2011.11.20.10.48.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:48:47 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:48:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201111170654.17684.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1684010.yx8ZB1EhLT@sheik-lin> In-Reply-To: <1684010.yx8ZB1EhLT@sheik-lin> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3942682.00mWWnaXWT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111201848.49843.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1f458145-0d73-4c3e-8831-1d82d5ce5bd9 X-Archives-Hash: cd3c054088ee63adc9f38d8327fbb716 --nextPart3942682.00mWWnaXWT Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 17:37:59 Hans M=C3=BCller wrote: > On Saturday, 19. November 2011 20:08:36 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 2011 7:28 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > > And, finally, yeah..that isn't just "not much", that's a terribly sma= ll > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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 ha= ve > > to do an "out-of-the-box" upgrade, i.e., upgrade an identical copy on t= he > > physical data center, grab the binpkg tarball, and upload the tarball to > > the cloud. >=20 > 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 compil= es > 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. >=20 > Best regards Thanks again for all the advice received. I've added a few swap files to b= ring=20 swap up to 1206984k and libxul.so was finally built and installed without=20 bringing the machine to its knees. :-) It seems that with time applications are getting bigger than what they used= to=20 be. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3942682.00mWWnaXWT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk7JS5EACgkQVTDTR3kpaLY/NgCgq9Vw/R4GuUh0RMTtxabAT4TV w7YAn19iMt985fLykz3fdMC6hCuOCcnL =8bdO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3942682.00mWWnaXWT--