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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I |
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>> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. |
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>> Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile |
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>> Portage pulling 99% by itself at times. |
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>> I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what I've given debian |
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>> vms... can anyone give some guidance about how much ram to allow a |
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>> gentoo vm in Vbox? |
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>> I'm on a windows 10 host with 32 GB ram but running a number of vms. |
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> Depends on what you are compiling. webkitgtk is a brute, so is |
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> thunderbird, libreoffice and other usual culprits. Those sorts of build |
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> systems need as much ram as you can spare whereas the rest of the time |
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> vm itself needs as much as it needs to do whatever it is you want it to do. |
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> What hypervisor are you using, and can you use memory ballooning? |
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Sorry I meant to include that info... virtualbox-5.1.8 |
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