Hi Adam/Evan/Pawell, thanks for the useful feedback. This "gold" sounds good, although if I want to install it on Fedora I note that there isn't package (yet) and the src/build/install-build-deps.sh script is apparently only for Ubuntu 8/9, so I will have to go the 'hard way' mentioned on the LinuxFasterBuilding wiki. (Accordingly I don't think it should be specified as a chromium build requirement until most distributions are supported.)
By the sounds of it 2Gb of physical memory really is the minimum, and I better get upgrade my hardware. Technically my motherboard should support that (as a max) but I failed to boot the other day when trying to add different-sized DIMM. I will track down two identical 1Gb DIMMs and put them in. Reporting back later, Akira On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. <[email protected]>wrote: > If you have less than 1 GB of RAM, I wouldn't even try to link the biggest > binaries. 2 GB of RAM should be sufficient, although with 4 and more it's > better. And you will notice the change after switching to gold. > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 18:58, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Akira <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I was building on Fedora 10 and was able to compile but the >> > linking stage (see below) consumes more and more memory- the 500Mb of >> > remaining memory, then another 1Gb of swap- before being killed. >> >> Are you using gold? >> >> >> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxFasterBuilds#Linking_using_gold >> >> If not, that's the single biggest win for linking size and speed. I >> know Evan builds on his laptop using gold, but I don't know the exact >> specs. >> >> >> AGL >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
