On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 03:43:16 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Please sanitize your make.conf file. > > I am seeing some lines ending with $. > > Not all lines have the closing quotes. > > > > Your global USE flags contain some that no longer exist (Dale's favourite > > "hal" being one of them :) ) > > > > Also, I have 32GB ram in my desktop and I do have a swap partition. When I > > am working, it does get used. Software keeps using more memory. So do 27 > > cc jobs (jobs 9 for make and jobs 3 for emerge). > > > > I would re-condiser not using swap unless you are certain you will never > > need more than 16gb. (Eg. No graphical desktop running a few webbrowsers) > > > > -- > > Joost > > I have 16GBs here and it uses swap more than I like. I set swapiness to > like 10, 5 or some really low number and it still runs low and has to > use it. It's usually during updates too. If LOo and a web browser like > Seamonkey or Firefox updates at the same time, it gets ugly, quick. I'm > wanting to upgrade to 32GBs now. I suspect before long, that won't be > enough either. Then comes a new mobo, new ram, new CPU etc etc. Oh > crap, new install, bad wiki. o_O > > Even if I upgrade to 32GBs, I'd still have swap. It may only be a few > GBs but I'll still have some. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
If the OP does not want to create a partition just for swap, a swap file will do the same job. -- Regards, Mick
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