On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Michael wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:04:30 > From: Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 09:30:00 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I'm trying -j1 first. This machine has 50% of its maximum ram capacity > > in use and only has 2gb of ram capacity so yes this is a low memory > > machine. Why I'm using it at all is since it has available a 3tb hard > > drive. As long as /tmp directories under the $HOME directory structure > > have better system protection than /tmpfs and /var/tmp if the -j1 build > > fails I'll try pointing the memory to a safer place. I need to buy some > > decent sized ssd drives since that way I can do this on my new machine > > with 14GB of ram. > > OK, your RAM is not enough to build most large packages today. I'm thinking > rust, chromium, gcc, firefox, libreoffice, as examples. Most of these will > refuse to emerge right at the start as they check for adequate /var/tmp space. > In any case, the solution for low RAM PCs is to set up adequate space on your > disk for those packages only. Also to increase your swap, or add a swapfile > just for these larger packages. > > Have a read at 'Example 2' here: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env > > If your / fs partition has inadequate free space, you can set up /var/tmp/ > notmpfs to a different partition as long as you remember to mount it with > 'mount -o exec' and activate any swapfile(s) in advance. > > If you only set up more swap and leave PORTAGE_TMPDIR on RAM, the swapping > from your RAM to disk will inevitably incur I/O bottleneck conditions and will > start thrashing the disk, which could slow everything down to a crawl, > potentially for days. Therefore, it is worth switching to BFQ scheduler when > heavy swappage is expected: > > # echo bfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > > where sda is the disk on which the swapfile or partition is set.
-- Since the profile without the desktop emerged @world correctly after the make.conf file got adjusted correctly for this computer I think all it will run will be the basic profile. Even if it were possible to emerge the compiles necessary for a desktop and get the rest of the system built I'd probably run into difficulties later. I'll do the basic profile on this machine and maybe do a desktop on the newer machine at some later date.
