On Sunday 15 of June 2014 12:31:57 Michael Howard wrote: > On 15/06/2014 00:23, Slávek Banko wrote: > > 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 > > Nice. What device is it? > > > 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. > > Ok, it's looking like I'm the problem :) > > Cheers, > Mike. My little builder is as a virtual machine (KVM). Inside the virtual machine is then used qemu-user-static for building armel, armhf and mips packages. Physical machine has: + cpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz (4 cores + HT) + ram: 16 GiB -- Slavek