From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQjlq-0007no-LA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:46:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F32CE0438; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from duke.wrkhors.com (p70-63.acedsl.com [66.114.70.63]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E923E0438 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duke.wrkhors.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DA911583BE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:43:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <497B2901.2080507@wrkhors.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:43:13 -0500 From: Steven Lembark Organization: Workhorse Computing User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090102) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 953501a2-30ff-4cef-9563-1d2f0a7c9914 X-Archives-Hash: b22993cbade9ffb0e40f54dc95f9d4d0 > 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. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lembark@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508