I can only agree with the original posting: Sage-6.6 release on gentoo requires more than 1.5GB for compiling, on a 2GB computer about half a GB is needed for running gnome (especially now that polkit has an unfixed memory-leak in gentoo), so during single-threaded builds Swapfile will definitely be used. from what I see up to 5GB per thread is needed for building, inside some python scripts. would be nice if this got reverted in next release. if not, at least warn about it, so people with only 16GB can avoid using more than 4 threads...
as for 1GB being used: there is a script setup.py which ps shows 3 times with the parameter "build", even though I told make to use at most 2 threads and only when load is <1. "ps aux" shows "0.1 400736 2272", "27.8 1675752 568952" and "40.5 1638940 829452" in their "%MEM VSZ RSS" columns, their size shows as 275,612 1,531,976 and 1,495,164 respectively. is it a bug in make that swap-file management doesn't count as load? ps doesn't show any process called "make" in that phase though... Am Donnerstag, 26. März 2015 19:30:58 UTC+1 schrieb bogda...@gmail.com: > > My computer runs out of memory when I attempt to build sage from source. I > want to build sage-6.6.rc0. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
