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On Saturday 13 September 2008 10:32:20 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: |
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> I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm |
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> trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of |
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> memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a |
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> bare minimum so this result is not entirely unexpected. |
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> Given that I can't add a swapfile (simply not possible in this virtual |
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> server) is the only option more RAM? If yes, then what is the minimum? |
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> Are there ways to reduce the amount of memory used by emerge? |
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> Cheers, |
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> Hilco |
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Do you have another more powerful gentoo machine available where you can build |
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the packages there and install just binaries on the virtual server? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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