What is being emerged at the time? (emerge -uD world -v --pretend)

Also, do you have any "-j?" in MAKEOPTS in /etc/make.conf?  If so, try
taking it out.

-Richard

Pupeno wrote:

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>emerge killed my computer for the 15th time, I run emerge -uD world -v, and 
>the computer starts to slow down, the HD to work a lot (maybe using swap) 
>untill the computer is totally useless (I can't even go and kill emerge, not 
>even pressing num lock toogles the light of the keyboard)... untill I reboot 
>it. Today I left it running for a while, untill the HD stoped, I believe the 
>memory and swap were filled and that the kernel paniced.
>This is an Athlon Xp 2400+, with 512 MB of phisical ram and 500 MB of swap.
>PORTAGE_NICENESS is set to 19 on /etc/make.conf.
>Any ideas ?
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