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From: Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:43:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497B2901.2080507@wrkhors.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e99b2eae0901200922s2e498a0bm1777dbd1797a3052@mail.gmail.com>


> I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from
> source on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and
> can often be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require
> a lot of RAM and hdd space while it compiles.

He has plenty of disk. It may use a lot of
virtual memory, but with sufficient swap it
will [eventually] get done.

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Steven Lembark                                            85-09 90th St.
Workhorse Computing                                 Woodhaven, NY, 11421
lembark@wrkhors.com                                      +1 888 359 3508



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-24 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 17:05 [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 17:14 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:15 ` Alejandro
2009-01-20 17:22   ` Nick Cunningham
2009-01-20 17:32     ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 18:42       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-20 18:53         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-01-20 19:37         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21 19:01           ` Daniel Troeder
2009-01-20 19:20       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-21 15:57         ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 14:43     ` Steven Lembark [this message]
2009-01-20 17:27   ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 17:37     ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:56       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-20 18:00         ` s3b4sm4gr1
2009-01-20 19:23           ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  1:00           ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-01-24 14:53             ` Steven Lembark
2009-01-24 15:47               ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 15:55               ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-01-20 17:37   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  0:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-01-21  2:18   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  3:28     ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-21  3:49       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-21  4:02         ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-21  3:39     ` Shawn Haggett
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-20 16:46 [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-20 17:05 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-20 17:11   ` Nick Cunningham
2009-01-20 17:38 ` Mark Knecht
2009-01-20 18:01 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-01-20 18:09 ` kashani
2009-01-21  0:50 ` Dale
2009-01-24 14:40 ` Steven Lembark

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