Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 10:37 +, u...@net9.ga wrote: > I did nothing to make it use tmpfs. Should I explicitly take some actions > to get it outside of tmpfs? Hi, no you don't need to take any action. I suspect my other idea to disable tmpfs entirely is entirely idiotic. $ df -h | grep tmpfs

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread u34
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > it's much likely that you cannot build a kernel in tmpfs. > By default your 4G RAM are 2G tmpfs. However, if you configure to build > a slim kernel, it might work, let alone that you should get an "out of > space" error, if you run out of space. Swapping by providin

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread u34
Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > I saw the LD proccess consumed almost all of the machine free > > memory. And also a lot of swap. Which happend right at the LD operation, > > not before. It is only a desktop, Only 4G RAM. > > I'm surprised you could've ever compiled a kernel with only 4GB Ram > >

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 11:07 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > I'm surprised you could've ever compiled a kernel with only 4GB Ram > > People are talking here about optimisations so it can compile on 32GB > machines: > https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-objtool In this case, while my first

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread u34
Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote: > On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 08:58 (+), u...@net9.ga wrote: > >I haven't tried all the 6.2.*. Only some of the earliest, and some of > >the latest. v6.2.9, at this time. I could build the earliest v6.1.*. > >And also v6.1.12. Which is arch latest v6.1.*, doesn't it?

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, it's much likely that you cannot build a kernel in tmpfs. By default your 4G RAM are 2G tmpfs. However, if you configure to build a slim kernel, it might work, let alone that you should get an "out of space" error, if you run out of space. Swapping by providing way enough swap space never work

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I saw the LD proccess consumed almost all of the machine free > memory. And also a lot of swap. Which happend right at the LD operation, > not before. It is only a desktop, Only 4G RAM. I'm surprised you could've ever compiled a kernel with only 4GB Ram People are talking here about optimisatio

Re: Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread Jaron Kent-Dobias
On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 08:58 (+), u...@net9.ga wrote: I haven't tried all the 6.2.*. Only some of the earliest, and some of the latest. v6.2.9, at this time. I could build the earliest v6.1.*. And also v6.1.12. Which is arch latest v6.1.*, doesn't it? I got what looks to me a similar is

Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?

2023-04-03 Thread u34
Hello, I haven't tried all the 6.2.*. Only some of the earliest, and some of the latest. v6.2.9, at this time. I could build the earliest v6.1.*. And also v6.1.12. Which is arch latest v6.1.*, doesn't it? I got what looks to me a similar issue with v6.1.7, if I remember correctly. As of v6.2.7 a