From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-47575-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1G7KfL-0004Vx-L6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:25:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6UNMGne005189; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:22:16 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6UNIdNB021982 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:18:39 GMT Received: from [10.20.31.251] (cpe-066-057-226-032.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.226.32]) by ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6UNIblL011866 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44CD4BF2.70902@electronsweatshop.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:16:50 -0500 From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060628) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OO Build Failed References: <44CA5BF9.2070308@electronsweatshop.com> <20060728180749.GB6203@nibiru.local> <44CAE18C.5030400@electronsweatshop.com> <7573e9640607282037h457dd100wb175e77c70be582e@mail.gmail.com> <44CD1D2C.4040700@electronsweatshop.com> <7573e9640607301516r3655f0bbk5823534cfc60c5f3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607301516r3655f0bbk5823534cfc60c5f3@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 9ecd62bf-660c-47c9-b969-9c30f9c0cb0a X-Archives-Hash: 9868020bbbd396c5bd914384fa9ea30b Richard Fish wrote: > BTW, -O3 uses *a lot* more ram to compile compared to -O2. Indeed, > gcc will sometimes take 200-500MB of RAM to compile a single C++ > module. So combined with MAKEOPTS=-j2, and only 512MB of RAM total, > yeah, I think you ran out of memory. > > In fact, you may want to drop to MAKEOPTS=-j1 permanently. Swapping > is simply not something you want to do when compiling...it is too damn > slow. If you run so many jobs that some get pushed to swap, it would > be far faster to run one job at a time without swapping! Thanks for the advice Richard! R -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list