09-16-2020, 09:48 PM
More notes:
- Even with -j1 and 500MB swap, it still died while building wallet2.cpp.o. Currently using 2GB swap with -j1.
- System is fine for interactive use (e.g. light web browsing) while building with -j1 & enough swap.
- If you are running off SD card, you can of course mount the eMMC & use its swap files & swap partitions, as well as making more swap files on it.
- With an SSD (such as eMMC) there is no difference between using a swap file & a swap partition, so there is no longer a need to repartition in order to efficiently increase swap space. Just delete the tiny 500MB swapfile that Debian+MATE came with and replace with a 2GB. (See man mkswap for details.) And you can temporarily create a 6GB swapfile2 and swapon both of them.
- There is indeed a use case for 8GB RAM or more on the Pinebook Pro, even with everything else the same. I just ran into it. Likewise the 128GB eMMCs are looking better all the time.
- Even with -j1 and 500MB swap, it still died while building wallet2.cpp.o. Currently using 2GB swap with -j1.
- System is fine for interactive use (e.g. light web browsing) while building with -j1 & enough swap.
- If you are running off SD card, you can of course mount the eMMC & use its swap files & swap partitions, as well as making more swap files on it.
- With an SSD (such as eMMC) there is no difference between using a swap file & a swap partition, so there is no longer a need to repartition in order to efficiently increase swap space. Just delete the tiny 500MB swapfile that Debian+MATE came with and replace with a 2GB. (See man mkswap for details.) And you can temporarily create a 6GB swapfile2 and swapon both of them.
- There is indeed a use case for 8GB RAM or more on the Pinebook Pro, even with everything else the same. I just ran into it. Likewise the 128GB eMMCs are looking better all the time.