On 11/28/2013, 12:14 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Please file a bug (and CC me) with more details about where the build fails, how much memory the machine has, and how much memory each compiler invocation consumes (test with make -j1). We can adjust the number of files we build in one chunk per directory, so this is easily fixable. "Buy more RAM" is a terrible answer to this kind of problem.
Particularly when that's not an option at all for many current and prospective contributors, yeah.
Right now the build page on MDN says " More than 2 GB of RAM for recent Firefox builds, 4 GB or higher recommended", but it's important for our community to have a more granular understanding of our requirements there, and to make sure it stays possible - not "efficient" or "pleasant" or anything, just "possible at all" - to build Firefox on low-end machines.
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