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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes |
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> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as |
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> chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this |
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> besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". |
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> - Grant |
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As Volker says, don't turn swap off. Make it small if you must, but |
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keep some around. It's just disk space. |
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I doubt swap has anything at all to do with this problem myself, but |
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it will be interesting to hear from others. |
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You don't say what sort of processor this machine has, nor what sort |
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of hard drives. Even on a very high-end machine I saw the symptoms you |
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report when I tried a 4K sector WD Green drive with the partitions |
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misaligned. Once properly aligned the machine worked as expected. |
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If this is a single processor machine and you're in the middle of a |
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big emerge then likely you're just going to lose interactivity. It's |
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the nature of the beast. You could try |
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PORTAGE_NICE= |
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in make.conf and possibly get some relief. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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