> > I can't really help with the problem, but I've built the same package > recently with just 4GB of RAM. (It takes a long time.) So most likely > it's something in your portage settings that's causing this. > > - Lasse
Agreed. I’ve built it recently on 16GB of RAM. My MAKEOPTS is -j13 -l5 to allow good distribution of effort across 2 other machines with distcc. Only about 7-8 GB appears to be actively used on the machine running the emerge. John