On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Dan Stromberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/11, David Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> While trying to translate pypy-1.7 with the sandbox option, using pypy-1.6 I >> saw the translating pypy consume 13.3GB of memory (column Res in top). This >> is under FreeBSD-9RC2/amd64. >> > > I also get a lot of memory use when building pypy 1.6 on a 64 bit > Debian system with gcc 4.4.5. > > The machine has 3 Gigabytes of physmem. I let one build attempt run > for 2 or 3 days before killing it. > > The same system built pypy OK with a 32 bit OS, though they were > builds of nearby pypy trunk's, not 1.6.
3G is borderline for 64bit. I build pypy on 3G, but it requires closing browsers etc. > >> I've never noticed this memory consumtion when translating pypy-1.6 with the >> stackless option. >> >> Is this perhaps a bug with pypy-1.6 or the source code for pypy-1.7? I'll >> try >> again using pypy-1.7 to do the translating once it has been translated (I >> needed to restart since I was running the translations in parallel). >> >> Regards >> > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
