Apparently, though unproven, at 10:18 on Monday 17 January 2011, William Kenworthy did opine thusly:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 10:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 03:39 on Monday 17 January 2011, William > > > > Kenworthy did opine thusly: > > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy > > > > <bi...@iinet.net.au> > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > I think that's well worded. He has insufficient memory when emerging. > > > > > > > > If he's really running short of DRAM Then he might also do well to > > > > boot to a console and do his emerges there. No memory given over to > > > > other things like KDE or browsers, etc. > > > > > > > > I am a bit surprised though that a -j1 type emerge would be running > > > > out of memory on a 3GB machine. I just finished emerge updates on a > > > > desktop with 4GB and only used 2.5GB which includes KDE, FIrefox and > > > > a > > > > > > > number of other things: > > > I have a diskless 3GB ram atom system (mythtv frontend) and I have to > > > arrange swap over nbd for gcc and glibc emerges - others just get very > > > slow when getting to limits, or get flaky unless -j1 is used. Havent > > > tried OO on it yet :) > > > > I'M flabbergasted. 3G is really a gigantic amount of memory and yet the > > machine still runs out of the stuff? > > > > Something is seriously wrong somewhere when code does this. I know memory > > is cheap and all, but still ... that's just excessive > > Your behind the times Alan - 3G was a huge amount 10 years ago ... Not so much :-) I too have db servers with 96G of ram. 5 of them, so I'm current. I'm just gobsmacked that a desktop needs 3G to build a compiler and system libs. It's consuming 2G to do that, I'll bet that 1.75G of that is pure wastage. Much like authors who proudly declare that they spent 7 years writing some magnum opus. It's a sure bet they were drunk of 6.5 of them :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
