On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Jochen Kirchner wrote > this is my make.conf: (its a web - and mail server) > > MAKEOPTS="-j17 -l17"
Ouch!!! How much ram do you have on that machine? The Gentoo install handbook has a dire warning at... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#MAKEOPTS ...that you need approx 2 gigabytes free ram for each increment in "MAKEOPTS". > * Warning > Using a large number of jobs can significantly impact memory > consumption. A good recommendation is to have at least 2 GiB of RAM > for every job specified (so, e.g. -j6 requires at least 12 GiB). To > avoid running out of memory, lower the number of jobs to fit the > available memory. If you have a fancy-schmancy "desktop environment" allow another 3 or 4 Gigs, especially if you're simultaneously running Chrome or calculating large spreadsheets or processing large documents. For "MAKEOPTS=-j17" you'll need at least 36-to-40 gigabytes. -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
