On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:46:01PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I'm not sure about why you would have a problem with the memory. I did > do a LFS build recently on a cloud server with only 512M of ram. gcc > did run it oom, but adding a swap file cleared that up -- it just took > longer. > > I don't understand why the number of processors would matter. > > -- Bruce > It's a desktop - when compiling some c++ packages the desktop becomes totally unresponsive for tens of seconds. This also happened on my other single-processor x86_64 which had adequate memory and faster cpu, faster disk. On my current multiprocessor desktops I haven't seen the problem.
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