Am Samstag 19 November 2011, 14:42:07 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: > >>> I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of > >>> memory > >>> error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the > >>> kernel. > >>> > >>> The error as far as firefox is concerned is the same. Is this a > >>> firefox bug, or is my decrepit old laptop incapable of compiling > >>> Firefox ... > >>> > >>> Am I the only one suffering from this? > >> > >> How much RAM do you have? How big if your swap? > > > > # free > > > > total used free shared > > buffers cached> > > Mem: 640392 133084 507308 0 81360 > > 23972 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 27752 612640 > > Swap: 257004 6156 250848 > > > > May not be much by today's standards, but I never had an out of memory > > error that I can recall just compiling packages in the past. > > You have 640MB RAM and 256MB swap. That isn't nearly enough to compile > big packages nowadays. > > You can try to increase your swap partition from 256MB to 3GB. However, > hitting the swap during a compile is going to strangle your system. To > maximize available RAM, logout of the desktop first, then shutdown the > graphical environment entirely: > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop > > and then compile. Start the desktop again after that: > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > Modern versions of GCC and binutils are quite memory hungry, so your > only real option is to add more RAM. You should have at least 2GB of it > these days for a Gentoo system.
makeopts -j1 helps too. -- #163933
