On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:28:39PM -0500, Michael Shell wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 01:30:21 +0000 > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm now in the process of downgrading my oldest x86_64 to x86_32 [ > > i.e. i686 ] - recent g++ is unusable on a desktop x86_64 with only > > 2 GB of memeory and a uniprocessor (i.e. the desktop becomes > > unresponsive when compiling). > > > I'm sure you probably already know about this, but just for the record, > did you try altering the I/O scheduler to something else such as > deadline: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1009577/selecting-a-linux-i-o-scheduler > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6880/1 > Yes, used that for years. Thanks.
> If it really is low RAM, what causes 2GB to be eaten up so quickly > in an x86_64 environment (which does not happen under the x86_32)? > Don't know, and I haven't successfully booted the new system yet [ forgot to build devtmpfs in the kernel ], but the build (from xorg) was also swapping on x86_32 so it might not be any better. On my new (SMP) boxes, LFS-7.2 is fine. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
