On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Wols Lists wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 03:54:48 > From: Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On 13/10/20 07:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:28:01 AM CEST Andreas Fink wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:10:04 -0400 > >> > >> Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: > >>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated > >>> program cc1plus compilation terminated. > >> > >> These two lines stongly suggest that you ran out of memory while > >> compilation. You could try to build it with only one job (-j1), > >> currently you are using -j2. > >> Another option would be to buy more RAM ;) > >> And last but not least, you could increase your swap memory, but be > >> prepared that your system becomes unresponsive and compilation will > >> probably take forever. > > > > One more suggestion, your PORTAGE_TMPDIR is set to "/var/tmp". > > By default, this is a tmpfs, which means it's all kept in RAM. > > If that's true then somebody has ****ed up! > > /tmp is specified as "files may disappear at any time" > > /var/tmp is specified as "temporary storage that should survive a reboot" > > Okay, that's not the exact wording, but that is the effect. > > > > If your system is that low on RAM, you might want to change that to a > > different location that is backed by a real disk. > > > The other thing about default tmpfs, is it defaults to half of ram. So > it could actually be quite small. I explicitly set mine to be big, > because I configure oodles of swap. > > Cheers, > Wol > I'm trying -j1 first. This machine has 50% of its maximum ram capacity in use and only has 2gb of ram capacity so yes this is a low memory machine. Why I'm using it at all is since it has available a 3tb hard drive. As long as /tmp directories under the $HOME directory structure have better system protection than /tmpfs and /var/tmp if the -j1 build fails I'll try pointing the memory to a safer place. I need to buy some decent sized ssd drives since that way I can do this on my new machine with 14GB of ram.
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