On Monday, December 26, 2016 09:45:47 PM Francesco Turco wrote: > 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. > > 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.
You could try building all packages on your own system and then installing using "-k". That should avoid any out-of-memory issues. -- Joost
