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On 2009-01-20, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> |
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>>> I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source |
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>>> on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often |
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>>> be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM |
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>>> and hdd space while it compiles. |
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>> |
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>> I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may |
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>> be futile :) |
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> |
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> It's been chugging away for about 30 hours now, so we'll see. :) |
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For the morbidly curious, he OOo emerge finished succesfully |
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after 34.77 hours. The machine has 256MB of RAM (PC133 SDRAM) |
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with 1GB of swap: |
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pavilion log # cat /proc/cpuinfo |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : GenuineIntel |
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cpu family : 6 |
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model : 6 |
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model name : Celeron (Mendocino) |
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stepping : 5 |
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cpu MHz : 434.314 |
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cache size : 128 KB |
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fdiv_bug : no |
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hlt_bug : no |
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f00f_bug : no |
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coma_bug : no |
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fpu : yes |
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fpu_exception : yes |
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cpuid level : 2 |
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wp : yes |
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flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr |
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bogomips : 868.62 |
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clflush size : 32 |
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power management: |
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I don't yet know if OOo actually works (the machine is headless |
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and keyboardless at the moment). |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! This MUST be a good |
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at party -- My RIB CAGE is |
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visi.com being painfully pressed up |
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against someone's MARTINI!! |
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