Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:01:57
Message-Id: 20110305090101.1bd7093a@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:41:30 -0500
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
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4 > and for me the bigger benefit is not sucking down half a gig of RAM.
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6 Oh, that's exactly what is catching more and more users out: Hey I got
7 8 cores so I can run MAKEOPTS=-j8! What happens? With only 6GB RAM, and
8 each of those eight cc1plus jobs picking more than half a gigabyte,
9 jobs get OOM killed. Please volunteer on bug-wranglers@. :)
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