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On 2012-02-05 18:38, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Samuraiii <samuraiii@×××××.cz> wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I have (right now) 3 computers runing Gentoo and as two of them are with |
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>> only 1GB of ram - which for libreoffice compiling is not enough. |
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>> So my questions are: |
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>> 1) Is it possible with distcc overcome this memory limitation? -call compile |
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>> on "weak" machine and leave memory load on "strong" one |
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> To a limited extent, yes. You could configure things such that |
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> compiles happen remotely, but links always have to happen locally. And |
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> anything not done with a C or C++ compiler happens locally. |
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> AFAICT, any C or C++ app's most memory-consumptive act is linking. |
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> Your better bet is probably going to be to add swap. |
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The swap thing is good idea but wont work because (libreoffice is one of |
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examples) ebuild checks for available ram not swap so when there is eg. |
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962MB of ram it fails right in begining of merge |
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I myself have really huge (4GB+) swap for some reasons |
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