Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 10:25:14 Mick wrote: >> On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 03:43:16 Dale wrote: >>> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>> Please sanitize your make.conf file. >>>> I am seeing some lines ending with $. >>>> Not all lines have the closing quotes. >>>> >>>> Your global USE flags contain some that no longer exist (Dale's >>>> favourite >>>> "hal" being one of them :) ) >>>> >>>> Also, I have 32GB ram in my desktop and I do have a swap partition. When >>>> I >>>> am working, it does get used. Software keeps using more memory. So do 27 >>>> cc jobs (jobs 9 for make and jobs 3 for emerge). >>>> >>>> I would re-condiser not using swap unless you are certain you will never >>>> need more than 16gb. (Eg. No graphical desktop running a few >>>> webbrowsers) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Joost >>> I have 16GBs here and it uses swap more than I like. I set swapiness to >>> like 10, 5 or some really low number and it still runs low and has to >>> use it. It's usually during updates too. If LOo and a web browser like >>> Seamonkey or Firefox updates at the same time, it gets ugly, quick. I'm >>> wanting to upgrade to 32GBs now. I suspect before long, that won't be >>> enough either. Then comes a new mobo, new ram, new CPU etc etc. Oh >>> crap, new install, bad wiki. o_O >>> >>> Even if I upgrade to 32GBs, I'd still have swap. It may only be a few >>> GBs but I'll still have some. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >> If the OP does not want to create a partition just for swap, a swap file >> will do the same job. > I forgot to mention, btrfs will not support swap files ... yet. A different > fs type will be required in this case.
Yea, I've used that at times myself. The biggest thing, don't run out of memory and not have any swap. Using swap is slow but it's better than crashing. I only have 1GB here. At times, the swap file gets added. I should have made it bigger. Live and learn. Dale :-) :-)
