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| From: | Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build | ||
| Date: | Fri, 14 Jun 2019 06:32:49 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAC=wYCEXdRGNn2FDBtrGdJQfPjxmAZEx7zhtJqsvtxtruhvN8A@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build by Mick |
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| 1 | > |
| 2 | > More swap will help, but the basic problem here is the HUGE number of jobs |
| 3 | > specified. If each job eats say up to 2G when it gets going, then -j32 |
| 4 | > will |
| 5 | > require >64G RAM to keep running without thrashing the swap device, or |
| 6 | > running |
| 7 | > OOM. |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Yes agree. If the swapfile is on an SSD then there's no thrashing. For me |
| 11 | the swap file only gets used on big builds and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is |
| 12 | tweaked via /etc/sysctl.conf so SSD wear is not a big concern. |