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Old 11th September 2008
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Originally Posted by robbak View Post
... If it is regularly in use, you should enlarge it (Not and easy task!).
One can use a swap file. For instance, I was compiling OO in one of my Gentoo boxes, I saw the RAM got filled, swap usage started grow too. I managed to create a 3 GB swap file and turn it on without interrupting the build.
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