Francesco Turco <ftu...@fastmail.fm> writes: > Hello. > > I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it > with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some > packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this > VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing > -pipe from C(XX)FLAGS and setting MAKEOPTS to -j1? Should I add a swap > partition? Currently there's only a single root btrfs filesystem with @, > @boot and @home subvolumes. Btrfs doesn't support a swap file as far as > I know.
You could verify if it really does run out of memory. If that happens, adding a swap file or a swap partition or more memory might help. > My VPS is currently used for the following things: > - Static personal website > - Shaarli (PHP application with no database) > - Tiny Tiny RSS (PHP application with database) > - ZNC server > > Thanks.
