On 20 August 2010 09:57, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: >> Of course I know it depends on swap space, operating system, lots of >> things, so nobody can give an exact answer, but I'd be interested to know >> if building Sage on a machine with only 1 GB of RAM is likely to be >> possible. >> >> The machine, which runs AIX (or it would if I can fix the PSU), has 4 CPUs, >> though I don't think I'll be building 4 packages in parallel with only 1 GB >> RAM! >> > I actually regularly build sage on my old iMac G4 with 512MB of RAM. > Albeit I now have stopped building "vanilla" and focused on my Gentoo > flavor as the upgrade takes much less time. But every components builds > - over a week end - > > Francois
Thank you Francois, it seems that gives me some hope. The only barrier to testing this is now to get the power supply fixed! I'd not switched the machine on for many years. Then when I powered it up a few times over the course of a weekend it was fine. The next thing the LCD display showed an "40110001" error code, which indicates a PSU fault. I'll take a look at fixing it myself (very hard with switch mode power supplies), but if not. look for one on eBay I think. Dave Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
