Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Yeah, funny that. Maybe you can write the new RFC to synchronize all reply > mail to all other replies anywhere in the world. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > When they figure out how to use quantum entangl

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 September 2008 16:10:02 Justin wrote: > > Do you have another more powerful gentoo machine available where you can > > build the packages there and install just binaries on the virtual server? > > Thats exactly what Nikos suggested!!! Yeah, funny that. Maybe you can write the new R

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Justin
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Saturday 13 September 2008 10:32:20 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a b

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 September 2008 10:32:20 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm > trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of > memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a > bare minimum so this r

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Erik Hahn
You could get a bit more memory with compcache, but I doubt it would be sufficent. -Erik

[gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a bare minimum so this result is not entirely unexpected. Given that I can't add a swapfile