On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:30:21 Grant did opine thusly: > > [..] > > > >> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any swap > >> under > >> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just 256MB of > >> RAM > >> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server (postfix > >> + > >> dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i > >> disable swap. I do normally have swap enabled on it, though, > >> because emerging sometimes uses a lot of RAM. > > > > Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it couldn't > > emerge gcc when I had swap disabled. > > I can't compile openoffice with -j1 on 3GB RAM and no swap.
Sounds like a case for a swap partition that can be activated when you need it for big emerges. I hit the same thing with firefox-5 oddly enough. As for OOo, long ago I figured the pain wasn't worth the gain so now I use the -bin packages. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
