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Apparently, though unproven, at 10:18 on Monday 17 January 2011, William |
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Kenworthy did opine thusly: |
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> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 10:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 03:39 on Monday 17 January 2011, William |
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> > Kenworthy did opine thusly: |
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> > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy |
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> > > > <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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> > wrote: |
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> > > > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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> > > ... |
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> > > |
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> > > > I think that's well worded. He has insufficient memory when emerging. |
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> > > > If he's really running short of DRAM Then he might also do well to |
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> > > > boot to a console and do his emerges there. No memory given over to |
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> > > > other things like KDE or browsers, etc. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I am a bit surprised though that a -j1 type emerge would be running |
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> > > > out of memory on a 3GB machine. I just finished emerge updates on a |
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> > > > desktop with 4GB and only used 2.5GB which includes KDE, FIrefox and |
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> > > > a |
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> > > > number of other things: |
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> > > I have a diskless 3GB ram atom system (mythtv frontend) and I have to |
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> > > arrange swap over nbd for gcc and glibc emerges - others just get very |
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> > > slow when getting to limits, or get flaky unless -j1 is used. Havent |
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> > > tried OO on it yet :) |
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> > I'M flabbergasted. 3G is really a gigantic amount of memory and yet the |
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> > machine still runs out of the stuff? |
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> > Something is seriously wrong somewhere when code does this. I know memory |
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> > is cheap and all, but still ... that's just excessive |
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> Your behind the times Alan - 3G was a huge amount 10 years ago ... |
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Not so much :-) |
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I too have db servers with 96G of ram. 5 of them, so I'm current. I'm just |
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gobsmacked that a desktop needs 3G to build a compiler and system libs. It's |
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consuming 2G to do that, I'll bet that 1.75G of that is pure wastage. |
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Much like authors who proudly declare that they spent 7 years writing some |
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magnum opus. It's a sure bet they were drunk of 6.5 of them :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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