Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges
Date:	Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:19:56
Message-Id:	`4d335288.98a1df0a.544e.ffff8ae2@mx.google.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges by Grant

1	On Sunday 16 January 2011 11:25:06 Grant wrote:
2	> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes
3	> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as
4	> chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this
5	> besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1".
6	>
7	> - Grant
8
9	no.
10
11	And turning off swap is not a good idea. Google for overcommitting and why it
12	is bad to turn swap off.