On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Corey Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Steve Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> Quite possible. The machine in question has just 1Gb. It's booted up to >> just a text shell to keep as much memory open as possible. >> >> Although I built it on a CruchBang system on the same class machine (same >> memory, disk and CPU) and it works fine -- but it takes hours there as well >> (could still be a memory issue). >> > > The build needs 1.6GiB all to itself. Swapping is going to be > reallllly slow (as you've experienced).
Yep, that's going to take hours and hours. The recommendation these days is to have 2.5 GiB RAM available for the build process alone. https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust#memory-usage Lindsey _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
