On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 18:29 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > So, how much memory does R need to build ? > I have: > > $ free > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 6103628 1807560 2631444 146376 1664624 > 3107868 > Swap: 8788924 670108 8118816 >
We have the same amount of RAM, but building dev-lang/R doesn't come close to using it all on my machine, even with MAKEOPTS="-j4"... > > I already have (in make.conf): > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 1 ..." > > This seems to solved the issue: > # cat /etc/portage/env/j1 > MAKEOPTS=-j1 > # cat /etc/portage/package.env/R > dev-lang/R j1 That will work around the issue, and you may have to use that trick for some other packages like firefox/LLVM with "only" 6GB of RAM. But it doesn't explain why I can build dev-lang/R and you can't. What USE flags does "emerge -pv1 dev-lang/R" show? Are you willing to watch "htop" in another window while the dev-lang/R build fails to see how much memory is free?
