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From: "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com>
To: fturco@××××××××.fm
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 23:15:42
Message-Id: 1480ea15-ff68-cc64-8242-25345ac9547f@gmx.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM by Francesco Turco
1 On 12/26/2016 03:45 PM, Francesco Turco wrote:
2
3 > Hello.
4 >
5 > I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it
6 > with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some
7 > packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this
8 > VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing
9 > -pipe from C(XX)FLAGS and setting MAKEOPTS to -j1? Should I add a swap
10 > partition? Currently there's only a single root btrfs filesystem with @,
11 > @boot and @home subvolumes. Btrfs doesn't support a swap file as far as
12 > I know.
13 >
14 > My VPS is currently used for the following things:
15 > - Static personal website
16 > - Shaarli (PHP application with no database)
17 > - Tiny Tiny RSS (PHP application with database)
18 > - ZNC server
19 >
20 > Thanks.
21 >
22 How about do a distributed compile via an SSH tunnel?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>