Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I >> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. >> >> Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile >> >> Portage pulling 99% by itself at times. >> >> I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what I've given debian >> vms... can anyone give some guidance about how much ram to allow a >> gentoo vm in Vbox? >> >> I'm on a windows 10 host with 32 GB ram but running a number of vms. >> >> > > Depends on what you are compiling. webkitgtk is a brute, so is > thunderbird, libreoffice and other usual culprits. Those sorts of build > systems need as much ram as you can spare whereas the rest of the time > vm itself needs as much as it needs to do whatever it is you want it to do. > > What hypervisor are you using, and can you use memory ballooning?
Sorry I meant to include that info... virtualbox-5.1.8
