El día domingo, octubre 25, 2026 a las 05:36:14p. m. +0200, Sulev-Madis Silber escribió:
> > > On October 25, 2026 4:33:40 PM GMT+02:00, Rainer Duffner > <[email protected]> wrote: > >Over the years, RAM and swap requirements have risen significantly. > > > >This is especially true when it happens that it's building two „large“ > >things at the same time. For me it was gcc14 and rust. > > > >chromium is also notorious for requiring huge amounts of RAM and swap for > >linking. > > > anybody wanna explain me where did my 4g ram and 6g swap go in build? > > i don't have full understanding of source to binary translation process which > is actually difficult task anyway. compilation, linking. > > but resulting binaries on disk aren't multi gigabyte, so what could possibly > live in memory? just write it down! > > i shudder at code which requires several hundred gigabytes of memory to > build. i heard those things exist. that's large for even 2026 > > for my entire life i have experienced that building is cpu intensive task. > and the only drawback on slow cpu was to simply wait. how come it now became > a memory intensive task > My poudriere oven (a Dell R210) has 8 CPU, 8 GByte RAM and 24 GByte swap (nearly unused at the moment). Currently it builds in parallel: # poudriere status -b =>> [160-CURRENT-ports20261023] [2026-10-24_21h14m23s] [parallel_build] Time: 20:43:00 Queued: 516 Inspected: 0 Ignored: 0 Built: 190 Failed: 3 Skipped: 1 Fetched: 0 Remaining: 322 ID TOTAL ORIGIN PKGNAME PHASE TIME TMPFS CPU% MEM% [01] 01:31:29 net/wireshark@default | wireshark-4.6.9 build 01:14:46 59.8% 4.7% [02] 02:02:18 devel/py-qt6-pyqt@py312 | py312-qt6-pyqt-6.11.0 build 02:00:08 158.5% 11% [03] 02:05:07 www/firefox | firefox-158.0.1,2 build 01:53:30 253.5% 36.8% [04] 07:23:03 editors/libreoffice | libreoffice-26.8.1.1 build 07:13:09 153.6% 5.4% top shows: 92 processes: 12 running, 80 sleeping CPU: 98.7% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 6063M Active, 3003M Inact, 1169M Laundry, 4823M Wired, 1560M Buf, 894M Free ARC: 1538M Total, 779M MFU, 618M MRU, 2576K Anon, 21M Header, 100M Other 1262M Compressed, 1620M Uncompressed, 1.28:1 Ratio Swap: 24G Total, 1695M Used, 22G Free, 6% Inuse I think, all is fine at the moment, even with www/firefox and editors/libreoffice in parallel. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ [email protected], http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub
