From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8EE841382C5 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E554DE087B; Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9620AE083E for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-152-228-242.range86-152.btcentralplus.com ([86.152.228.242] helo=[192.168.1.64]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1lbg3a-0002ud-6y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:00:31 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3107303.aeNJFYEL58@lenovo.localdomain> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <608923D1.4080701@youngman.org.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:58:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3107303.aeNJFYEL58@lenovo.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0b6e5f99-273d-4d37-81b9-268015e57d5a X-Archives-Hash: 7e1ed56852a0f0403a0bd53597ff3017 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