On 06/03/10 05:10, Simon Geard wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 23:38 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Great! However, is that the max that was needed during the build? > > No idea, but if that full installation comes in at 3.6Gb, it's unlikely > that any single package would have pushed it over 5Gb during build. > Assuming you're not doing the builds somewhere under /home anyway... >
On my system the largest package is gcc which needs about 1.2G for all the source. I compile in /tmp which has a tmpfs mounted on it. I set the tmpfs' size at 2G to be safe and make sure I have a swap partition available on systems with less than 4G of ram. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
