On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 15:57:58 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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.
Thanks guys. From your comments it seems that it's been touch & go so far. This is an old PIII laptop which I have been keeping up to date without any problems until now. OOo was never emerged on this machine, I have always used ooo-bin. I did emerge chromium though (early versions) and have not had problems with gcc. Perhaps the latest Firefox broke its back. Will try again to emerge it with - j1 and see if it makes a difference or if that fails I will add a swap file to give it some breathing space. -- Regards, Mick
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