On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Lindsey Kuper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
It actually got much better since that was written, but there was a recent 300MiB regression. http://huonw.github.io/isrustfastyet/mem/ _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
