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On Sunday 25 Aug 2013 14:51:33 Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: |
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> Hi List, |
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> |
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> Since a few days i'm trying to install gentoo on a kvm guest from edis.at. |
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> They support to boot from a gentoo minimal live-cd in order to install your |
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> own gentoo. The system has 5GB storage and 256MB ram. Actually that |
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> should be enough for a minimal installation. However, till now i couldn't |
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> get over that point where i'm trying to install the kernel sources... |
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> The partition of the hd looks like this right now: |
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> 64MB /boot |
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> 256MB swap |
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> ~4,3GB / |
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> Swap is active and i also made sure there are enough inodes on / (i had to |
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> raised them). |
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> Even though there is enough space and 256mb ram + 256mb swap should |
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> be enough ram i can't install (copy) the kernel sources. They just stop |
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> suddenly. There is nothing in the build.log. Last view lines are: |
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> >>> /usr/src/linux-3.10.7-gentoo/sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-ac97.c |
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> >>> /usr/src/linux-3.10.7-gentoo/sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-pcm.c |
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> >>> /usr/src/linux-3.10.7-gentoo/sound/soc/pxa/pxa-ssp.c |
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> >>> /usr/src/linux-3.10.7-gentoo/sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-i2s.c |
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> However i'll get errors in dmesg and it seems i'll get out of memory while |
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> installing: |
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> [snip] |
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> [63599.551452] emerge invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, |
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> oom_score_adj=0 |
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> [63599.551466] Pid: 12358, comm: emerge Not tainted 3.8.13-gentoo #1 |
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> . |
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> . |
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> . |
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> [63599.552434] Out of memory: Kill process 13382 (emerge) score 635 or |
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> sacrifice child |
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> [63599.552435] Killed process 13382 (emerge) total-vm:438472kB, anon- |
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> rss:206552kB, file-rss:0kB |
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> [snip] |
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> Any idea what i can do here, except buying an better kvm? From the docs |
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> 256MB should be fine so i don't know why it doesn't work? |
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> thx |
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> mmike |
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I don't know why the docs say 256MB is enough, or if the statement is out of |
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date. Did you try increasing swap just for now to see if it completes the |
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installation? Some packages like gcc would eat up a lot RAM and it may never |
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be able to finish compiling without more memory and/or swap. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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