Cuda Issue? I just got through an issue compiling blender. It was freezing my machine compiling the cuda kernel code on a 12gb laptop. I tried running make from the kernel subdirectory and it made it through using 1 thread.
JJ On February 28, 2020 2:16:02 AM MST, Bastien Montagne <[email protected]> wrote: >There's also another solution, using ninja builder instead of make one >(ninja should be easy to install from your distro's packages). > >Once installed, you need to generate a CMake build, specifying ninja as > >builder (instead of the default, make option), and enabling >WITH_NINJA_POOL_JOBS: > >cd my/new/builddir >cmake -G Ninja -D WITH_NINJA_POOL_JOBS=ON path/to/blender/source > >You can then try to build and see if that works. If not, you can try to > >tweak the NINJA_MAX_NUM_PARALLEL_ options (e.g. set _LINK_JOBS and >_COMPILE_HEAVY_JOBS to 1). > >Those options try to be smart be enabling optimal parallelization for >regular compile tasks, while enforcing heavy ones (and linking, which >also eats a lot of RAM) to only run one at a time. > >As a side note, it would indeed be interesting to know which module >actually fails to build with 8GB. > >Cheers, >Bastien > >On 28/02/2020 09:58, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: >> There's a few possible solutions: >> >> * Enable WITH_CYCLES_NATIVE_ONLY and disable >> WITH_LIBMV_SCHUR_SPECIALIZATIONS >> * If it's running out of memory building a particular module, you can >> disable that module in CMake (e.g. WITH_MOD_FLUID, ...). It would be >> interesting to know which one. >> * As a last resort, you can build with fewer threads. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:48 AM Deep >Majumder<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I am trying to build Blender (from its source on Git) so as to apply >for >>> Google Suumer of Code 2020. However, when the build process (make) >reaches >>> to 57%, the whole of my 8 GB RAM is consumed and my system starts >thrashing >>> (eventually the build process gets killed). I am using Pop OS 19.10 >64-bit >>> (which is based on Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine 64-bit), on an Intel >Core i5 >>> 8th Gen processor, 8gb of RAM, and 4 GB of swap space on a 7200 rpm >HDD. >>> Is there a workaround this or do I need to buy more RAM? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Deep >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >_______________________________________________ >Bf-committers mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
