On Saturday 14 of June 2014 15:42:11 Michael Howard wrote: > Anybody any thoughts on why the tdebase (from git) build is so heavy on > ram? It makes building on embedded systems even more arduos than one > might expect. > > On a desktop PC with 6 cores and 32GB ram, the build uses over 7GB of > ram in the first couple of minutes ( I didn't build to the end, just > wanted a quick check). Not many embeded systems are that ram abundant :) > > On the arm devices I've tried to natively build on, all the ram is used > almost immediately (largest ram I have is 2G) and I can throw swap space > at it ad infinitum without success. > > Cheers, > Mike. My little builder has 12 GiB RAM. It is also used as tmpfs where is carried out building. A build for amd64/i386 run in parallel with armel, armhf and mips. That means four builders running side by side. And I did not notice problems with memory. -- Slavek