Re: emerge failure revisited

On 07/11/13 04:41, Don Wilburn wrote:
> A couple weeks ago, I reported that emerge gentoo-sources was failing. 
> It magically worked once, so I quit yapping.
>
> This was in the context of a fresh install, from the Gentoo CD boot.
> The fix seems to be enabling a swap device, which I don't think is in 
> the instructions.
>
> It was a fluke that I came to this conclusion, but it works.
> I switched to a second PWS500 (almost identical) to eliminate crazy 
> hardware as a possibility.
> I didn't think portage/emerge was such a hog that 256MB RAM was too 
> little.  BTW, my first machine had 384MB.
>
> I'm not going to formally report this as a bug, but I think something 
> is wrong.  Maybe it only affects weakling Alphas like mine?
> I don't follow the alternative architectures forum.  Maybe if someone 
> shows up there with this problem, you can suggest swapon.
>
> Adios,  DW
>
I haven't seen any error messages, but in today's world, it's really a 
good idea to run GCC with at least 1GB of (virtual) memory.  My alpha 
has 512MB, so I make sure that my swap is 2GB.  I strongly recommend you 
do likewise, disk space permitting.

-- 
Andrew