Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r72254:66bf42b5d051 Date: 2014-06-27 22:34 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/66bf42b5d051/
Log: Update FAQ diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst --- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst @@ -465,9 +465,13 @@ This is documented (here__ and here__). It needs 4 GB of RAM to run "rpython targetpypystandalone" on top of PyPy, a bit more when running -on CPython. If you have less than 4 GB it will just swap forever (or -fail if you don't have enough swap). On 32-bit, divide the numbers by -two. +on top of CPython. If you have less than 4 GB free, it will just swap +forever (or fail if you don't have enough swap). And we mean *free:* +if the machine has 4 GB *in total,* then it will swap. + +On 32-bit, divide the numbers by two. (We didn't try recently, but in +the past it was possible to compile a 32-bit version on a 2 GB Linux +machine with nothing else running: no Gnome/KDE, for example.) .. __: http://pypy.org/download.html#building-from-source .. __: https://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting-started-python.html#translating-the-pypy-python-interpreter _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
