From d9fa06dae6107285bf92d0f3f3f8242f2dcbaacb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Heigl Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:52:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated FAQ (markdown) --- FAQ.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 9049d3c..850c23a 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -95,14 +95,15 @@ Doing this is a quite ressource-heavy process, on a Raspberry Pi CM4l (8GB) it t Some optimizations will need to be done to manage a sucessful build, especially regarding free memory. Without them, the system might get ressource deadlocked and not be able to finish the build in many hours. -The following steps worked - - -**for other**s on raspi and similar platforms with 8GB or less: i would recommend to set up ZRAM and disabling other very large services for the moment so you'll have more ram for compiling and a faster swap handling. i gave 2GB to zwap (pri 100 per default) plus added a 2GB swapfile (pri -2) just in case. without those steps even 4 hours weren't enough, with the steps it took 38 min. building on a slow sd card. +ZRAM howtos: + +[Raspbian, English](https://linuxblog.io/raspberry-pi-performance-add-zram-kernel-parameters/) +[Raspbian, German](https://blog.gc2.at/post/zram/) + ### Prep - Stop other heavy daemons like EDR or similar for the time of the build. Every free GB counts in that moment.