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On 07/11/13 04:41, Don Wilburn wrote: |
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> A couple weeks ago, I reported that emerge gentoo-sources was failing. |
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> It magically worked once, so I quit yapping. |
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> This was in the context of a fresh install, from the Gentoo CD boot. |
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> The fix seems to be enabling a swap device, which I don't think is in |
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> the instructions. |
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> It was a fluke that I came to this conclusion, but it works. |
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> I switched to a second PWS500 (almost identical) to eliminate crazy |
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> hardware as a possibility. |
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> I didn't think portage/emerge was such a hog that 256MB RAM was too |
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> little. BTW, my first machine had 384MB. |
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> I'm not going to formally report this as a bug, but I think something |
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> is wrong. Maybe it only affects weakling Alphas like mine? |
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> I don't follow the alternative architectures forum. Maybe if someone |
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> shows up there with this problem, you can suggest swapon. |
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> Adios, DW |
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I haven't seen any error messages, but in today's world, it's really a |
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good idea to run GCC with at least 1GB of (virtual) memory. My alpha |
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has 512MB, so I make sure that my swap is 2GB. I strongly recommend you |
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do likewise, disk space permitting. |
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Andrew |
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