Hi Akhil, Building with sbt tends to need around 3.5GB whereas maven requirements are much lower , around 1.7GB. So try using maven .
For reference I have the following settings and both do compile. sbt would not work with lower values. $echo $SBT_OPTS -Xmx3012m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m $echo $MAVEN_OPTS -Xmx1280m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m 2015-05-13 5:57 GMT-07:00 Heisenberg Bb <hbbalg...@gmail.com>: > I tried to build Spark in my local machine Ubuntu 14.04 ( 4 GB Ram), my > system is getting hanged (freezed). When I monitered system processes, the > build process is found to consume 85% of my memory. Why does it need lot of > resources. Is there any efficient method to build Spark. > > Thanks > Akhil >
