On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 10:25:14 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 03:43:16 Dale wrote: > > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Please sanitize your make.conf file. > > > I am seeing some lines ending with $. > > > Not all lines have the closing quotes. > > > > > > Your global USE flags contain some that no longer exist (Dale's > > > favourite > > > "hal" being one of them :) ) > > > > > > Also, I have 32GB ram in my desktop and I do have a swap partition. When > > > I > > > am working, it does get used. Software keeps using more memory. So do 27 > > > cc jobs (jobs 9 for make and jobs 3 for emerge). > > > > > > I would re-condiser not using swap unless you are certain you will never > > > need more than 16gb. (Eg. No graphical desktop running a few > > > webbrowsers) > > > > > > -- > > > Joost > > > > I have 16GBs here and it uses swap more than I like. I set swapiness to > > like 10, 5 or some really low number and it still runs low and has to > > use it. It's usually during updates too. If LOo and a web browser like > > Seamonkey or Firefox updates at the same time, it gets ugly, quick. I'm > > wanting to upgrade to 32GBs now. I suspect before long, that won't be > > enough either. Then comes a new mobo, new ram, new CPU etc etc. Oh > > crap, new install, bad wiki. o_O > > > > Even if I upgrade to 32GBs, I'd still have swap. It may only be a few > > GBs but I'll still have some. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > If the OP does not want to create a partition just for swap, a swap file > will do the same job.
I forgot to mention, btrfs will not support swap files ... yet. A different fs type will be required in this case. -- Regards, Mick
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