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From: Jochen Kirchner <jk@×××××××.design>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btop fails to compile
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:50:47
Message-Id: f5d2ec7a1dcda6da1dff369a8b6e3732@jk-foto.design
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btop fails to compile by Walter Dnes
1 Am 2022-12-05 07:30, schrieb Walter Dnes:
2 > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Jochen Kirchner wrote
3 >
4 >> this is my make.conf: (its a web - and mail server)
5 >>
6 >> MAKEOPTS="-j17 -l17"
7 >
8 > Ouch!!! How much ram do you have on that machine? The Gentoo
9 > install
10 > handbook has a dire warning at...
11 >
12 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#MAKEOPTS
13 >
14 > ...that you need approx 2 gigabytes free ram for each increment in
15 > "MAKEOPTS".
16 >
17 >> * Warning
18 >> Using a large number of jobs can significantly impact memory
19 >> consumption. A good recommendation is to have at least 2 GiB of RAM
20 >> for every job specified (so, e.g. -j6 requires at least 12 GiB). To
21 >> avoid running out of memory, lower the number of jobs to fit the
22 >> available memory.
23 >
24 > If you have a fancy-schmancy "desktop environment" allow another 3 or
25 > 4 Gigs, especially if you're simultaneously running Chrome or
26 > calculating large spreadsheets or processing large documents. For
27 > "MAKEOPTS=-j17" you'll need at least 36-to-40 gigabytes.
28
29 Hi,
30
31 it's a Hetzner dedicated Server with 64GB of ram :)
32 But now I switched to Netcup.de kvm server.
33
34 ---
35 Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
36 Jochen Kirchner
37
38 eMail: jk@×××××××.design
39 Web: https://www.jk-foto.design