You'll probably need only a single build (30GB) to warm up. And I assume your work will mainly touch the kernel (OOM, lowmemorykiller) and the dalvikVM. I strongly advise you to do one complete snapshot. Otherwise you'll end with a weird environment, and images you can't rebuild. And you'll pay the price in time and headaches instead of (cheap) storage.
good luck, Emeric On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Murilo Adriano Vasconcelos < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I want to work on the Android's memory management to implement some > ideas. Reading the Source > Getting Started from AOSP site, I found these > notes: > > *Note: The source download is approximately 8.5GB in size. You will need > over 30GB free to complete a single build, and up to 100GB (or more) for a > full set of builds.* > *Note: It is also possible to build Android in a virtual machine. If you > are running Linux in a virtual machine, you will need at least 16GB of > RAM/swap and 30GB or more of disk space in order to build the Android tree. > ** > * > * > * > My question is: I really need to build all that stuff to work on the > memory manager (implement features and run tests)? > 100GB seems huge! > > Thanks, > Murilo > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
