Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:21:06
Message-Id: 507C8BC6.6030403@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync by Alex Schuster
1 Am 15.10.2012 22:57, schrieb Alex Schuster:
2 > Alan McKinnon writes:
3 >
4 >> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:03:59 +0200
5 >> Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen@×××.de> wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:50:07 +0200
8 >>> Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
9 >>>
10 >>>> As it says, you're out of memory. It seems you are low on RAM, what
11 >>>> does free -m say? Maybe you need to add some swap space?
12 >>>
13 >>> lvps5-35-240-192 / # free -m
14 >>> total used free shared buffers
15 >>> cached Mem: 164600 11 164589 0
16 >>> 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 11 164589
17 >>> Swap: 0 0 0
18 >>
19 >> You have 164M of RAM, that is not enough. Packages like gcc and glibc
20 >
21 > free -m outputs megabytes, so this would mean he has 164 G of RAM, with
22 > only 11 M being used... something is wrong here. Not sure what.
23 >
24 > Wonko
25 >
26
27 You cannot trust `free` on a vserver. Just because the system has that
28 much RAM, doesn't mean its allocated to your instance.
29
30 It should still be enough to use gentoo on it. In fact, I'm doing just that.
31
32 Regards,
33 Florian Philipp

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