On 27/12/16 07:15, [email protected] wrote: > On 12/26/2016 03:45 PM, Francesco Turco wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it >> with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some >> packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this >> VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing >> -pipe from C(XX)FLAGS and setting MAKEOPTS to -j1? Should I add a swap >> partition? Currently there's only a single root btrfs filesystem with @, >> @boot and @home subvolumes. Btrfs doesn't support a swap file as far as >> I know. >> >> My VPS is currently used for the following things: >> - Static personal website >> - Shaarli (PHP application with no database) >> - Tiny Tiny RSS (PHP application with database) >> - ZNC server >> >> Thanks. >> > How about do a distributed compile via an SSH tunnel? >
I recently built gcc, glibc etc on a raspberry pi model B (arm, 32G sd card, 512M ram, 1G swap) Used swap, ccache, distcc to a VM setup to cross-compile, -j1 and made sure it was otherwise lightly loaded. For a temp swap if limited by btrfs, FAQ's suggest swap over nfs (I have used this at times and it can be flakey/hard to get to work consistently - diskless intel atoms) or via a loopback. BillK
