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On Monday, December 26, 2016 09:45:47 PM Francesco Turco wrote: |
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> Hello. |
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> I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it |
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> with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some |
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> packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this |
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> VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing |
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> -pipe from C(XX)FLAGS and setting MAKEOPTS to -j1? Should I add a swap |
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> partition? Currently there's only a single root btrfs filesystem with @, |
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> @boot and @home subvolumes. Btrfs doesn't support a swap file as far as |
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> I know. |
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> My VPS is currently used for the following things: |
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> - Static personal website |
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> - Shaarli (PHP application with no database) |
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> - Tiny Tiny RSS (PHP application with database) |
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> - ZNC server |
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> Thanks. |
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You could try building all packages on your own system and then installing |
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using "-k". |
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That should avoid any out-of-memory issues. |
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