Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Yeah, funny that. Maybe you can write the new RFC to synchronize all reply mail to all other replies anywhere in the world. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com When they figure out how to use quantum entangled bits

[gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a bare minimum so this result is not entirely unexpected. Given that I can't add a swapfile

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Erik Hahn
You could get a bit more memory with compcache, but I doubt it would be sufficent. -Erik

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 September 2008 10:32:20 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a bare minimum so this

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Justin
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Saturday 13 September 2008 10:32:20 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I have a very small virtual server (just 64MB RAM, no swap) where I'm trying to install Gentoo. It fails to emerge binutils due to out of memory. According to the handbook I need 64MB RAM and 256MB swap as a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

2008-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 September 2008 16:10:02 Justin wrote: Do you have another more powerful gentoo machine available where you can build the packages there and install just binaries on the virtual server? Thats exactly what Nikos suggested!!! Yeah, funny that. Maybe you can write the new RFC to