Richard Fish wrote: > BTW, -O3 uses *a lot* more ram to compile compared to -O2. Indeed, > gcc will sometimes take 200-500MB of RAM to compile a single C++ > module. So combined with MAKEOPTS=-j2, and only 512MB of RAM total, > yeah, I think you ran out of memory. > > In fact, you may want to drop to MAKEOPTS=-j1 permanently. Swapping > is simply not something you want to do when compiling...it is too damn > slow. If you run so many jobs that some get pushed to swap, it would > be far faster to run one job at a time without swapping!
Thanks for the advice Richard! R -- [email protected] mailing list
