On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Niels Horn wrote:
If' you don't mind "cheating", you can get pre-built packages from my
site: http://www.nielshorn.net/slackware/slack_pkg.php
Niels,
Thank you. I don't see using pre-built packages as cheating. After all,
the goal is to have running applications. If I w
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Aleksandar Samardzic
wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Rich Shepard
> wrote:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> The problem is that sometime during the build the system shuts down. This
>> happened twice yesterday afternoon when the outside temperature was about
>> 81
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Aleksandar Samardzic wrote:
It could be that ACPI automatically shut your machine down, due to too
high CPU temperature. You may wist to try to clean, or replace, your CPU
fan, as well as to vacuum your machine air inlets. Also, you may try with
setting your CPU freq, usin
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> The problem is that sometime during the build the system shuts down. This
> happened twice yesterday afternoon when the outside temperature was about
> 81F (and about 88F here at my desk). I had this problem with building the
>
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Ottavio wrote:
But if you have 4G of ram you still have (4 - 1.7) G of ram available +
swap. If you mount tmpfs on /tmp, /tmp will be located in ram + swap. Then
you can change the .SlackBuild to point to /tmp.
I have 8G swap space.
Does it matter where .SlackBuild po
On 24 September 2011 16:24, Rich Shepard wrote:
> No, I haven't. According to 'df -h'
> tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /dev/shm
This only means that /dev/shm is using 1.7 of (probably virtual) ram (
a bit too much I think).
But if you have 4G of ram you still have (4 - 1.7) G of ra
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Ottavio wrote:
Have you tried mounting tmpfs on /tmp ? If 4 G is not enough, it will use
swap (see also my post on slackware uk lug mailing list about this).
Ottavio,
No, I haven't. According to 'df -h'
tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /dev/shm
I don't kno
On 24 September 2011 16:11, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'd like to use FreeCAD for 2D designs but I cannot build OpenCASCADE
> (Slackware-13.1/32-bit running on an AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor
> (dual-core) with 4G RAM. Because the build requires ~2.5G disk space and
> /tmp has only ~2.6G free I cha
I'd like to use FreeCAD for 2D designs but I cannot build OpenCASCADE
(Slackware-13.1/32-bit running on an AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor
(dual-core) with 4G RAM. Because the build requires ~2.5G disk space and
/tmp has only ~2.6G free I changed the .SlackBuild to point to ~/workspace
which has
