Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:33:04
Message-Id: 20121016002959.20de2db0@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync by Alex Schuster
1 On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:57:17 +0200
2 Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
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4 > Alan McKinnon writes:
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6 > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:03:59 +0200
7 > > Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen@×××.de> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:50:07 +0200
10 > > > Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
11 > > >
12 > > > > As it says, you're out of memory. It seems you are low on RAM,
13 > > > > what does free -m say? Maybe you need to add some swap space?
14 > > >
15 > > > lvps5-35-240-192 / # free -m
16 > > > total used free shared buffers
17 > > > cached Mem: 164600 11 164589 0
18 > > > 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 11 164589
19 > > > Swap: 0 0 0
20 > >
21 > > You have 164M of RAM, that is not enough. Packages like gcc and
22 > > glibc
23 >
24 > free -m outputs megabytes, so this would mean he has 164 G of RAM,
25 > with only 11 M being used... something is wrong here. Not sure what.
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28 Oops, indeed. I read the man page (really, I did...)
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30 and my brain performed a
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32 s/mega/kilo/
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36 Alan McKinnon
37 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com