Dominic Fandrey wrote:
Why don't you just do the buildworld on another machine?
As I don't use the machine as a primary workstation at the moment, it doesn't really matter to me if it takes 1 hour or 3 months, I start the buildworld in a screen'd shell and check on it periodically. When it finishes, I set aside 10 to 20 minutes to do an installworld/kernel & mergemaster via serial console, 'just in case.' The closest it gets to annoying is when I start a buildworld based on a new security fix, and 3 days in the fix is revised. : )
And Oliver, you were correct, omitting -pipe didn't allow a buildworld to finish with 448MB ram + swap. Guess I get to repartition after all. My new plan is going to be sourcing a Gigabyte I-RAM, putting 4GB on it, and wiring up an external power supply for it. That plus an SATA to IDE adapter from NewEgg should let me run the I-RAM on my empty ATA controller, giving me 4GB of swap running as fast as the machine can take it. Depending on how it behaves, I may track down a 2MB ISA VGA card again and throw KDE4 on it just to be truly insane. They say it's much better about memory utilization now... :P
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