On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Two Intel systems with 4G RAM failed to build chromium, even after setting > MAKEOPTS="-j2". The ebuild is checking for a minimum of 3G RAM: > > >>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110 > * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM ... [ ok ] > * Checking for at least 5 GiB disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/ > chromium-70.0.3538.110/temp" ... [ ok ] > > Given I've spent more than two days compiling to get nowhere with this, I'm > thinking: > > a) Chromium probably needs more than 3G now. > b) Either the ebuild, or portage, ought to check available RAM and dynamically > adjust the number of jobs accordingly - or have I watched too many AI movies? > > -- > Regards, > Mick
You're right. Chromium does require more than 3G of RAM to build. Here are the current system requirements for building Chromium on Linux: System requirements A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly recommended. At least 100GB of free disk space. You must have Git and Python v2 installed already. See the link below for details. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/linux_build_instructions.md#system-requirements
