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From:	Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] OO Build Failed
Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:25:48
Message-Id:	`44CD4BF2.70902@electronsweatshop.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] OO Build Failed by Richard Fish

1	Richard Fish wrote:
2	> BTW, -O3 uses a lot more ram to compile compared to -O2. Indeed,
3	> gcc will sometimes take 200-500MB of RAM to compile a single C++
4	> module. So combined with MAKEOPTS=-j2, and only 512MB of RAM total,
5	> yeah, I think you ran out of memory.
6	>
7	> In fact, you may want to drop to MAKEOPTS=-j1 permanently. Swapping
8	> is simply not something you want to do when compiling...it is too damn
9	> slow. If you run so many jobs that some get pushed to swap, it would
10	> be far faster to run one job at a time without swapping!
11
12	Thanks for the advice Richard!
13
14	R
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