> Don't know how long machine will stay up ... > > Building FF8 seems to suck up memory and hang my machine real good > when it finally exhuasts swap space, now that mpi@'s diff got me > past the initial js part. > > I added 2G of swap this morning and started again. It gets to > > ... > gmake[3]: Entering directory '[snip]/mozilla-release/toolkit/library' > rm -f libxul.so.27.0 > /usr/local/bin/python2.7 [gigantic list of includes and libraries] > ... > > At which point swap goes shooting past my previous 1G, and pauses at > 1.2G when the next message is printed: > > ld: Warning: gc-sections ignored > > by which time ld is taking 60% of the processor! After this ld processor > use goes down and swap starts creeping up again. > > ld is still spiking to >30% of processor, no new messages have > appeared and machine (which I am typing this on) appears responsive. > Swap is up to 1453M, and my extra swap light (i.e. the usb stick's > light) is blinking. > > This machine is a macppc macmini with 512MB of real memory.
Yes, firefox needs 1500-1700 M of memory for linking, so its difficult to get it to compile with 512 M of real :-) And its going to get worse as they are going to add more and more complexity, not reduce complexity.
