Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 15:01:09 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:48 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 7 December 2018 10:17:17 GMT Andreas Fink wrote: > > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + > > > > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > And today, of course, there's an

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:48 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 7 December 2018 10:17:17 GMT Andreas Fink wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + > > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > > > ditched it. Is there a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 10:17:17 GMT Andreas Fink wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > > ditched it. Is there a way to force chromium to be not ~amd64 on a > > ~amd64 system? > > Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > ditched it. Is there a way to force chromium to be not ~amd64 on a > ~amd64 system? Yes, I do that with this entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords: www-client/chromium

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 6 December 2018 10:35:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:11:06 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:12:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The main reason I've ditched chrome and chromium altogether is that they > > > insist on redirecting

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:11:06 GMT Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:12:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The main reason I've ditched chrome and chromium altogether is that they > > insist on redirecting me to their mobile site - and this is a 27-inch > > screen! But I'm also

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:12:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > The main reason I've ditched chrome and chromium altogether is that they > insist on redirecting me to their mobile site - and this is a 27-inch > screen! But I'm also uncomfortable with the privacy concerns such as you > mention.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:16:10 GMT Mick wrote: > I chose Chromium because I understood Google-Chrome to have some settings/ > code, which is meant to link Google services with a user's footprint even > after you have logged out of all Google services. > > What I found with Chromium is

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 03:26:50 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.04 20:36, Adam Carter wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > > > Phew! The chromium emerge completed with -j1, although it took 4 > > > > hours > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Jack
On 2018.12.04 20:36, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > Phew! The chromium emerge completed with -j1, although it took 4 hours > longer > than last time on one PC and 6.5 hours longer on another. > For

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > Phew! The chromium emerge completed with -j1, although it took 4 hours > longer > than last time on one PC and 6.5 hours longer on another. > For those systems it might be worth trying the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:10:05 +, Mick wrote: > > It starts the compile by running make or whatever is appropriate for > > the build, so it doesn't need to build anything already built any > > more than a bare make does. But using ebuild compile means you get > > the same environment as when

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:57:11 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:23:27 -0500, Jack wrote: > > On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long > > >> time compiling is to cd to the top build dir (under the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:23:27 -0500, Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long > >> time compiling is to cd to the top build dir (under the Portage tmp > >> dir) and just continue the compile (either make or

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:42:16 -0500, Jack wrote: > >>> Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with > >> > >>> this, I'm thinking: > >> One thing I've done in the past if

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Jack
On 2018.12.04 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:42:16 -0500, Jack wrote: Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with this, I'm thinking: One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long time compiling is to cd to the top build dir

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:42:16 -0500, Jack wrote: > > Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with > > this, I'm > > thinking: > One thing I've done in the past if something failed after a long time > compiling is to cd to the top build dir (under the Portage tmp dir) >

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Jack
On 2018.12.04 02:35, Mick wrote: Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: >>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110 * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM ...

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:47 AM Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:06:22 GMT Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick wrote: > > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > > > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Raffaele Belardi
> Thanks for this. It may be I'll need to build chromium as a binary on the > faster PC from now on and copy it over to the older clients, but I can't > recall what command spews out the detailed CFLAGS for the client which I will > need to run on the faster host's CLI to emerge the binary.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:06:22 GMT Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick wrote: > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: > > >>> Running pre-merge checks

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick wrote: > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: > > >>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110 > * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM

[gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-03 Thread Mick
Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: >>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110 * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM ...[ ok ] * Checking