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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:58:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <608923D1.4080701@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3107303.aeNJFYEL58@lenovo.localdomain>

On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote:
> There's three options, I can think of:
> 
> 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above.
> 
> 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it.
> 
> 3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, for 
> this package only.
> 
> I use the 3rd option, but I'm wondering if option 1 may be the smartest move 
> for my needs.

4. Add gazillibytes of swap. With a maximum of 16GB on my mobo, my two
disks each have a 32GB swap partition so that's 80GB of "ram" available
to my system. My /var/tmp/portage tmpfs is 30GB.

So obviously I use option 4 :-)

Cheers,
Wol


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27 20:53 [gentoo-user] Rusty problems Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-27 21:17 ` Matt Connell (Gmail)
2021-04-27 22:00   ` Michael
2021-04-28  8:58     ` Wols Lists [this message]
2021-04-28  9:21       ` Michael
2021-04-27 22:02 ` tastytea
2021-04-27 22:38 ` Teru Yuu
2021-04-27 23:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-04-28 11:12   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-28 12:03     ` Neil Bothwick
2021-04-28 22:05       ` antlists
2021-04-28 22:54         ` Neil Bothwick
2021-04-28  7:04 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-04-28  7:25   ` Andrew Lowe
2021-04-29  6:36 ` Adam Carter

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