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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: kosmikus <kosmikus@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:47:19
Message-Id: 20041118224712.GA10970@kroah.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM? by kosmikus
1 On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:42:14PM +0100, kosmikus wrote:
2 >
3 > All,
4 >
5 > Over in the Gentoo Haskell team we have this problem that one of our
6 > ebuilds (gtk2hs) needs loads of memory to build. It uses this
7 > preprocessor build tool that needs about 400Mb of memory (that's
8 > resident RAM not swap friendly virtual space). This is not something we
9 > can easily change.
10
11 How is haskell only using "real" ram? The kernel should not prevent it
12 from using swapable memory.
13
14 thanks,
15
16 greg k-h
17
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Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM? Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@××××××××××.uk>