Changes between Version 31 and Version 32 of Building/libtorrent

Timestamp:

10/19/2016 12:07:31 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Cas

Comment:

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Building/libtorrent

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-=== Add a temporary swap file ===
+=== Temporary Swap File for Rasperry Pi or low memory systems ===
 
-Compiling a library needs memory/swap during the "make". If you get an internal error during this phase on a computer with low memory and/or no swap partition (check with `free -m` ) you can test below procedure.
+Compiling libtorrent requires a lot of memory/swap during the `make` process ~1-2GB.
 
- 1. Create a 1GB empty file:
-`dd if=/dev/zero of=/.swapfile bs=1024 count=1M`
-1GB file creation wherever you have space, change the location following your possibilities 
- 2. Create swap:
-`mkswap /.swapfile`
- 3. Activate swap:
-`swapon /.swapfile`
- 4. check:
-Check if the swap is recognized with `swapon -s` or `free -m` (swap different from 0) 
- 5. Relaunch your compilation
- 6. Disable swap:
-`swapoff /.swapfile`
- 7. delete file:
-`rm -f /.swapfile`
+If you get an internal error during the make phase on a computer with low memory and/or no swap partition (verify with `free -m` ) you can try the below procedure.
+
+ 1. Create a 1GB empty swap file, (use a drive location that has enough free space):
+{{{
+dd if=/dev/zero of=/.swapfile bs=1G count=1M
+}}}
+ 2. Format swap file:
+{{{
+mkswap /.swapfile
+}}}
+ 3. Activate swap file:
+{{{
+swapon /.swapfile
+}}}
+ 4. Verify swap file is recognized:
+{{{
+swapon
+}}}
+ 5. Start/restart your libtorrent build.
+ 6. Disable swap file:
+{{{
+swapoff /.swapfile
+}}}
+ 7. Delete swap file:
+{{{
+rm -f /.swapfile
+}}}