Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Compiling opal - memory errors

[Tylerious <tylerious gmail com>]

Oh, thanks for the warning. And the suggestion; I didn't know how to
do that. Another 512 MB of swap worked great. Thanks again.

Isn't that something of a design flaw requiring 768 MB of memory for
one process? Seems like they could make it easier to compile.

Tyler Wake
On 4/20/06, simon <simon mungewell org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:19:40PM -0400, Tylerious wrote:
> > I've tried both those distributions, actually. However, I spent at
> > least three days straight compiling my current Gentoo system. A pain,
> > but everything just works (except stuff like this, naturally). I may
> > have to give up and go back to something else. Or maybe plug in a
> > large flash drive and mount it as swap.
>
> I wouldn't use a flash drive as swap - it'll cause a lot of wear to the
> device causing it to fail earlier...
>
> If you have spare disk space then you can use a swap file (rather than a
> swap partion). Commands are something like:
> ---
> dd if=/dev/zero of=large_swap_file bs=1M count=1024     # gives 1GiByte
> mkswap large_swap_file
> swapon large_swap_file
> ---
>
> and after the compile
> ---
> swapoff large_swap_file
> rm large_swap_file
> ---
>
> Have fun,
> Simon.
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