Oh, thanks for the warning. And the suggestion; I didn't know how to do that. Another 512 MB of swap worked great. Thanks again.
Isn't that something of a design flaw requiring 768 MB of memory for one process? Seems like they could make it easier to compile. Tyler Wake On 4/20/06, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:19:40PM -0400, Tylerious wrote: > > I've tried both those distributions, actually. However, I spent at > > least three days straight compiling my current Gentoo system. A pain, > > but everything just works (except stuff like this, naturally). I may > > have to give up and go back to something else. Or maybe plug in a > > large flash drive and mount it as swap. > > I wouldn't use a flash drive as swap - it'll cause a lot of wear to the > device causing it to fail earlier... > > If you have spare disk space then you can use a swap file (rather than a > swap partion). Commands are something like: > --- > dd if=/dev/zero of=large_swap_file bs=1M count=1024 # gives 1GiByte > mkswap large_swap_file > swapon large_swap_file > --- > > and after the compile > --- > swapoff large_swap_file > rm large_swap_file > --- > > Have fun, > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list > _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
