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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] check-reqs.eclass: fail check-reqs_memory() for virtual rather than physical RAM | ||
| Date: | Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:32:49 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20150603213234.1f464a12@googlemail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] [RFC] check-reqs.eclass: fail check-reqs_memory() for virtual rather than physical RAM by Christian Bricart |
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| 1 | On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:22:39 +0200 |
| 2 | > i've just hit the constraint CHECKREQS_MEMORY=3G in |
| 3 | > >=www-client/chromium-44.* on a 2 GiB RAM machine.. (having |
| 4 | > >additionally |
| 5 | > 5G Swap on SSD..) |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > I personally doubt that check-reqs_memory() in the eclass should only |
| 8 | > check for *physical* rather than *virtual* RAM to fulfill this |
| 9 | > constraint and fail if unsatisfied. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Swap is horrifically slow. It's better to fail than to use swap for |
| 12 | stuff... |
| 13 | |
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| 15 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] check-reqs.eclass: fail check-reqs_memory() for virtual rather than physical RAM | Christian Bricart <christian@×××××××.de> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] check-reqs.eclass: fail check-reqs_memory() for virtual rather than physical RAM | Diamond <diamond@××××××.ru> |