On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: > > > > Anyway.. I have a 512MB swap partition, I was running top and I wasn't > > even using that much swap.. I have 256MB RAM in the laptop.. > > > > Does that still seem like I'm running out? > > > > Yes. There is too little combined memory. Things like gcc, glibc, and > firefox have peak memory requirements of 800 MB to 900 MB during a > compile. OO requires more than that and you've only 768 MB total > to provide.
I have a system with 128mb + 256mb of swap. It has been enough to compile everything including OOo. I've seen (very rarely) the swap usage to go up to about 150-200mb, but it has never run out of memory yet. The reason for this may be that I don't use gnome or kde on that computer and I mostly use only Firefox at the compile time. Nevertheless your memory requirements do not seem realistic under normal desktop usage IMHO. In the end I think that the memory requirements depend strongly on what one has running at the compile time. -- T.G. -- [email protected] mailing list
