On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:07:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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? >
If it's diskless, where are /tmp and /var/tmp mounted? If they use tmpfs the "memory" usage is understandable. If they use NFS the emerges must be unbearably slow. -- Neil Bothwick "When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices... that's nothinng - when you play it forward it installs Windows"
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