Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Samstag 19 November 2011, 14:42:07 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote:
> >>> I've changed the title ever so slightly.  I am getting an out of
> >>> memory
> >>> error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the
> >>> kernel.
> >>>
> >>> The error as far as firefox is concerned is the same.  Is this a
> >>> firefox bug, or is my decrepit old laptop incapable of compiling
> >>> Firefox ...
> >>>
> >>> Am I the only one suffering from this?
> >>
> >> How much RAM do you have?  How big if your swap?
> >
> > # free
> >
> >               total       used       free     shared
> >               buffers     cached>
> > Mem:        640392     133084     507308          0      81360
> > 23972
> > -/+ buffers/cache:      27752     612640
> > Swap:       257004       6156     250848
> >
> > May not be much by today's standards, but I never had an out of memory
> > error that I can recall just compiling packages in the past.
>
> You have 640MB RAM and 256MB swap.  That isn't nearly enough to compile
> big packages nowadays.
>
> You can try to increase your swap partition from 256MB to 3GB.  However,
> hitting the swap during a compile is going to strangle your system.  To
> maximize available RAM, logout of the desktop first, then shutdown the
> graphical environment entirely:
>
>    /etc/init.d/xdm stop
>
> and then compile.  Start the desktop again after that:
>
>    /etc/init.d/xdm start
>
> Modern versions of GCC and binutils are quite memory hungry, so your
> only real option is to add more RAM.  You should have at least 2GB of it
> these days for a Gentoo system.

makeopts -j1 helps too.

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