Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

[Alan McKinnon]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:03:59 +0200
Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen@×××.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:50:07 +0200
> Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> > As it says, you're out of memory. It seems you are low on RAM, what
> > does free -m say? Maybe you need to add some swap space?
>
>
> lvps5-35-240-192 / # free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached Mem:        164600         11     164589          0
> 0          0 -/+ buffers/cache:         11     164589
> Swap:            0          0          0

You have 164M of RAM, that is not enough. Packages like gcc and glibc
will probably just not compile with so little RAM[1], and there is no
way on a Gentoo machine to avoid compiling those. You have several
options:

- use something else, not Gentoo
- Buy more RAM from the virtual machine provider
- build on another machine and emerge the binary packages.

The first is the one with the least pain.

[1] I have regular 32bit x86 VMs in my test lab that struggle to
properly compile big packages with 256M and sometimes even 512M is not
enough - gcc is the usual culprit.



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com