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On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 23:40 +0000, David Morgan wrote: |
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> Since when is a machine with 256MB "low on ram"? (it's also a P4, |
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> though only 1.8GHz, but that's not really relevant) I can usually |
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> compile things whilst listening to music and not lose any |
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> repsonsiveness most of the time. Running out of memory is also |
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> different from having a slow processory - most people probably |
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> wouldn't realise that the reason that X had been killed was that |
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> they'd run out of RAM (especially considering the problems caused by |
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> gcc optimizations not so long ago). |
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Not necessarily 256MB is low, but look at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71702 which was recently added. |
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Honestly, there are just some packages that are huge and require a ton |
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of resources. Robin gave a good example of one. I can think of another |
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one, if you have FEATURES=sandbox and go to install ut2004, you need |
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something like 11GB of free space! |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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