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On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 15:57:58 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am Samstag 19 November 2011, 14:42:07 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: |
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> > On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick 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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> > >>> |
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> > >>> The error as far as firefox is concerned is the same. Is this a |
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> > >>> firefox bug, or is my decrepit old laptop incapable of compiling |
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> > >>> Firefox ... |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> Am I the only one suffering from this? |
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> > >> |
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> > >> How much RAM do you have? How big if your swap? |
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> > > |
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> > > # free |
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> > > |
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> > > total used free shared |
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> > > buffers cached> |
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> > > |
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> > > Mem: 640392 133084 507308 0 81360 |
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> > > 23972 |
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> > > -/+ buffers/cache: 27752 612640 |
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> > > Swap: 257004 6156 250848 |
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> > > |
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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 that I can recall just compiling packages in the past. |
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> > |
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> > You have 640MB RAM and 256MB swap. That isn't nearly enough to compile |
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> > big packages nowadays. |
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> > |
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> > You can try to increase your swap partition from 256MB to 3GB. However, |
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> > hitting the swap during a compile is going to strangle your system. To |
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> > maximize available RAM, logout of the desktop first, then shutdown the |
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> > |
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> > graphical environment entirely: |
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> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop |
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> > |
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> > and then compile. Start the desktop again after that: |
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> > /etc/init.d/xdm start |
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> > |
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> > Modern versions of GCC and binutils are quite memory hungry, so your |
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> > only real option is to add more RAM. You should have at least 2GB of it |
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> > these days for a Gentoo system. |
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> |
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> makeopts -j1 helps too. |
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Thanks guys. |
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From your comments it seems that it's been touch & go so far. This is an old |
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PIII laptop which I have been keeping up to date without any problems until |
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now. OOo was never emerged on this machine, I have always used ooo-bin. I |
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did emerge chromium though (early versions) and have not had problems with |
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gcc. |
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Perhaps the latest Firefox broke its back. Will try again to emerge it with - |
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j1 and see if it makes a difference or if that fails I will add a swap file to |
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give it some breathing space. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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