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On Nov 19, 2011 6:31 AM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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error |
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> that I can recall just compiling packages in the past. |
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You've never compiled OOo or chromium on that box, have you? Chromium alone |
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takes 4GB on my box at the final link step. |
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Have you changed your CFLAGS since the last time you succesfully built FF? |
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Is -g new? Consider switching to -Os; it won't solve the immediate problem, |
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but it may help reduce overall system pressure by keeping binaries smaller. |
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Also look at adding "splitdebug" to FEATURES. Perhaps adding 2-3GB of swap. |
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What about any new or larger apps consuming system RAM? What does free -m |
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show before your emerge? |
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And, finally, yeah..that isn't just "not much", that's a terribly small |
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amount of memory. Assuming you've kept the software current, some of your |
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applications have certainly not been maintained with 600MB of system memory |
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in mind. |
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