| 1 |
On 05/29/2012 04:54 AM, walt wrote: |
| 2 |
> Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my |
| 3 |
> older/smaller machine. There is one place which ran through my puny |
| 4 |
> 1GB of ram and then went on to fill up another 2GB of swap before |
| 5 |
> oomkill stepped in. |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> That turned out to be a gcc bug, and a proper fix was added to gcc |
| 8 |
> 4.7.0 but not back-ported to 4.5.3, which I'm still using. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> Since then I scavenged half of that 1GB of RAM for my wife's machine, |
| 11 |
> so it should be fun to try to build virtualbox with the other half :) |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
Very cool :) I just built virtualbox with gcc-4.7.0 on my old machine |
| 14 |
with 0.5 GB of ram and had no problems whatever. I also pulled from |
| 15 |
Linus.git and compiled his latest kernel with gcc-4.7.0, no problems. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
So far, so good. |
Archives