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On 6/17/19 5:37 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> I doubt it. |
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> I've routinely done emerges on machines with < 16 GB of memory and 2 GB |
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> of swap.?? Including llvm, clang, gcc, rust, Firefox and Thunderbird. |
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> I routinely do an emerge -DuNe @world on a VPS with 1 GB of memory and 1 |
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> GB of swap.?? It works just fine.?? If I want to speed things up I enlarge |
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> the VPS to 2 GB of memory and 1 GB of swap.?? Granted, it doesn't try to |
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> compile things like Firefox and Thunderbird, thus Rust. |
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Yes. I've run systems without swap and <=8GB of RAM for years and |
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haven't had any problems with emerging packages (including rust, |
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firefox, gcc...). |
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If hibernate is not needed, and the system has enough RAM, there is |
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little point in having swap at all. It all depends on the usage, so I |
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don't think any (generic) guidelines make sense. |
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