Red On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2026-04-18 at 01:55 +0000, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Note: Ensure you have assigned at least 8GB of RAM to your VM before > > using 4 cores, as each build job requires its own memory. > > Over the years, I’ve learned to ignore emails from this sender. That > said, I’d still like to point out that I suspect that even if you don’t > build in tmpfs, building a kernel package particularly quickly with (so > many jobs in) "8GB of RAM" is unlikely to be possible. When I last built > my own kernels a few years ago, significantly more RAM was already > required just to make building in tmpfs possible at all. How long it > takes to build a kernel in a VM naturally depends on the VM and the > kernel configuration, but generally, the number of jobs and the amount > of RAM provided must be in balance, even if you’re not building in > tmpfs. I think the days when you could get by with 8 GiB of RAM are > over. To speed up the build process in a VM, I would streamline the > kernel configuration. A default Arch Linux kernel configuration will > likely support exotic hardware that would never be of any significance > in a virtual machine. >
