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On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: |
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>>> I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of memory |
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>>> error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the |
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>>> kernel. |
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>>> The error as far as firefox is concerned is the same. Is this a firefox |
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>>> bug, or is my decrepit old laptop incapable of compiling Firefox ... |
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>>> Am I the only one suffering from this? |
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>> How much RAM do you have? How big if your swap? |
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> # free |
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> total used free shared buffers cached |
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> Mem: 640392 133084 507308 0 81360 23972 |
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> -/+ buffers/cache: 27752 612640 |
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> Swap: 257004 6156 250848 |
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> May not be much by today's standards, but I never had an out of memory error |
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> that I can recall just compiling packages in the past. |
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You have 640MB RAM and 256MB swap. That isn't nearly enough to compile |
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big packages nowadays. |
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You can try to increase your swap partition from 256MB to 3GB. However, |
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hitting the swap during a compile is going to strangle your system. To |
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maximize available RAM, logout of the desktop first, then shutdown the |
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graphical environment entirely: |
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/etc/init.d/xdm stop |
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and then compile. Start the desktop again after that: |
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/etc/init.d/xdm start |
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Modern versions of GCC and binutils are quite memory hungry, so your |
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only real option is to add more RAM. You should have at least 2GB of it |
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these days for a Gentoo system. |
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