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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:10:30
Message-Id: 200411190010.24511.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM? by kosmikus
1 On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:42, kosmikus wrote:
2 > We have had reports from users who tried to build this package on their
3 > 256Mb machines that the ebuild fails (no surprise there) and that the
4 > OOM killer takes out X in the process.
5
6 Got a similar bug report. But hey, people know that you have to compile from
7 source, when using Gentoo. I don't think taking care for every <=500MHz box
8 low on ram does make sense. Usually you compile on another box, if you have
9 such a target.
10
11
12 Carsten

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