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 1LPM9Z-00044M-UA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E67E9E06ED; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5579E06ED for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5C564639 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.826 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.826 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.294, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p+os5AByP+NS for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C856466F for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPM9K-0003aC-4H for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:34 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:34 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901200932j19e16d5ekfa14db8846d4c443@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.251.14.41 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6e71fab5-5bfe-4567-bff3-71404e430c9b X-Archives-Hash: ac301d939dc5f3014b0bca6e2ee43555 On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman wrote: >> 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. > > I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may > be futile :) It's been chugging away for about 30 hours now, so we'll see. :) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are we laid back yet? at visi.com