Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM

[lee]

Francesco Turco <fturco@××××××××.fm> writes:

> Hello.
>
> I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it
> with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some
> packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this
> VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing
> -pipe from C(XX)FLAGS and setting MAKEOPTS to -j1? Should I add a swap
> partition? Currently there's only a single root btrfs filesystem with @,
> @boot and @home subvolumes. Btrfs doesn't support a swap file as far as
> I know.

You could verify if it really does run out of memory.  If that happens,
adding a swap file or a swap partition or more memory might help.

> My VPS is currently used for the following things:
> - Static personal website
> - Shaarli (PHP application with no database)
> - Tiny Tiny RSS (PHP application with database)
> - ZNC server
>
> Thanks.