On 11/16/20 9:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 15 nov 20, 15:10:34, Christian Kastner wrote: >> >> That's how I do it on amd64 currently. I assign each worker VM 4 cores >> and 8GB of RAM, and let a few workers run in parallel. I'm sure 8GB is >> insufficient for some packages (eg: the kernel), but I haven't run into >> one of them yet for my specific needs. And it's just a changeable parameter. > > The Debian 5.6.14 kernel built fine on a PINE A64+ with only 2 GiB RAM.
On bare metal, sure. In a VM backed by memory, builds consuming a lot of disk space in guests, will consume a lot host memory. However, checking a random kernel build log, I see that the kernel doesn't need that much disk space either, <1GB, so that wasn't a good example. A better example would have been src:firefox-esr, which needed 23GB.
