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>> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes |
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>> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as |
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>> chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this |
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>> besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". |
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>> - Grant |
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> As Volker says, don't turn swap off. Make it small if you must, but |
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> keep some around. It's just disk space. |
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I thought swap was no longer necessary on a machine with sufficient |
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memory. I guess I took I some bad advice a while back. |
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> I doubt swap has anything at all to do with this problem myself, but |
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> it will be interesting to hear from others. |
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> You don't say what sort of processor this machine has, nor what sort |
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> of hard drives. Even on a very high-end machine I saw the symptoms you |
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> report when I tried a 4K sector WD Green drive with the partitions |
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> misaligned. Once properly aligned the machine worked as expected. |
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It's a laptop with a dual-core 2.2ghz CPU. |
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> If this is a single processor machine and you're in the middle of a |
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> big emerge then likely you're just going to lose interactivity. It's |
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> the nature of the beast. You could try |
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> PORTAGE_NICE= |
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> in make.conf and possibly get some relief. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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'onice -c 3 emerge -DuN world' ended up working great. |
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- Grant |
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