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On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:22:56 Morgan Wesström wrote: |
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> If I understand [...] correctly, I wouldn't be able to compile Open Office |
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> on tmpfs with my 2GB RAM and 1GB swap. I would have to increase the swap |
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> space to be able to hold all the temporary files from the compilation, |
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> wouldn't I? |
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Yes. In fact, the OOo installation process checks for sufficient space |
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before it starts, both RAM and swap, and stops if it thinks you haven't |
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enough. |
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You could always allocate another swap partition. One of my boxes has 4 2GB |
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partitions on different disks, though that's far more than I need. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |