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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Teodor Spæren <teodor.spam@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I think |
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> is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu and the ram. |
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> It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap |
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> since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. |
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> The command I issue is: "emerge gentoo-sources" and the output of the |
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> command is this: http://bpaste.net/raw/66293/ |
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> The only thing I can really read from the error message is that it runs out |
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> of ram. This surprises me because all it is really doing is moving the |
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> kernel sources into place? I asked around in #gentoo on irc.freenode.net and |
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> someone adviced me to turn of "MAKEOPTS="-j2" and "-pipe", but this doesn't |
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> fix it. |
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And in the case of this sources package, I think nothing is being |
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compiled anyway. It simply unpacks, patches and copies the files to |
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/usr/src/xxxxx so I don't think either of those options ever come into |
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play. |
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You can manually emerge using the "ebuild" command, would be |
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interesting to see if it makes any difference. Could be some RAM usage |
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by emerge is just too much for your system. |
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You may need to use ulimit to keep python from using too much RAM when |
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you run emerge. |
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Do you have any daemons running in the background? Could you disable |
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any to free up more RAM as a test? |
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I think you will need even more than 512mb swap to be honest, I have a |
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server with 256mb of RAM and have to use 1gb of swap or else I get out |
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of memory conditions on occasion. I think you want 1gb or more if it |
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is possible. |
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In this case because it's out of memory while copying files, I wonder |
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if some of sysctl vm.* options will have influence. Kernel sources |
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have thousands of files and maybe I/O is not fast enough. |
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I use nice and ionice to make emerge running at the lowest priority |
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(meaning the least important) |
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> The possible work around I have thought of is just getting the vanilla |
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> kernel from kernel.org, but the gentoo wiki advise against it, since |
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> gentoo-sources is a patched kernel. |
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You can use vanilla, no problems. Please review the genpatches patch |
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set and determine if you use/need any of the Gentoo patches: |
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https://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/ |
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You can also manually apply this patchset to vanilla if you like, of course. |
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Good luck and welcome to the list! :) |
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