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 1LPMPm-0005G9-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EC22E04D7; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D248BE04D7 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB9B64750 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.328 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.328 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.204, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, 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 5AEab77c3r6p for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:25 +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 983BD64749 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMPa-0004Lr-KU for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:22 +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 19:37:22 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:22 +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 19:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901200932j19e16d5ekfa14db8846d4c443@mail.gmail.com> <20090120184247.6d5cebe2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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: e45e45f9-51d3-428d-8dea-170a4ab64a98 X-Archives-Hash: 9b3483b8028bb4ec6fbb634646d92e09 On 2009-01-20, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with >> 256mb may be futile :) > > Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. > Expect a new Debian release before OOo finishes building :) I've got 256MB of RAM plus 1GB of swap space. I'm sort of torturing the poor machine -- in addition to the OOo build, I'm emerging some other miscellaneous stuff (sdl-mixer at the moment). With the two emerge jobs running, there is 32MB of swap is in-use (unchanged for several minutes). That's not bad considering that the OOo build's cc1plus process RSS climbs up to 100+ MB at times. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! On the road, ZIPPY at is a pinhead without a visi.com purpose, but never without a POINT.