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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xz memory hungry?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:46:26
Message-Id: k141sj$4en$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry? by Jorge Almeida
1 On 22/08/12 21:52, Jorge Almeida wrote:
2 > # tar -xJvf /usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.16.tar.xz
3 > xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory
4 > tar: Child returned status 1
5 > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
6 >
7 > The box has 2G ram + 1G swap. I'm installing Gentoo from an existing distro.
8 > Emerging fails on m4. tar xJvf fails both from within the chroot and from the
9 > host system. top shows that nothing is using any amount of memory worth
10 > mentioning. Extracting libtool-2.4.tar.xz works. I can extract
11 > m4-1.4.16.tar.xz in a computer with 4G ram. This is ridiculous. Not gentoo
12 > related, except that I have no choice, as m4 is pulled by other packages.
13 > What to do?
14 >
15 > app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.3 in chroot
16 > xz 5.0.4 in host system (Archlinux)
17
18 You should file a bug about this. Whoever put that xz there surely has
19 no idea that this is happening.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xz memory hungry? Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>