Hi, I've experienced the same problem before. As far as I tested, building Release mode binary (hammer --mode=Release) would require much less memory than Debug binary. If it's sufficient for you, you may want to try this.
Thanks, Yuta On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, 黒鉄章 <ak...@yayakoshi.net> wrote: > Hi Adam/Evan/Pawell, thanks for the useful feedback. > > This "gold" sounds good, although if I want to install it on Fedora I note > that there isn't package (yet) and the src/build/install-build-deps.sh > script is apparently only for Ubuntu 8/9, so I will have to go the 'hard > way' mentioned on the LinuxFasterBuilding wiki. (Accordingly I don't think > it should be specified as a chromium build requirement until most > distributions are supported.) > > By the sounds of it 2Gb of physical memory really is the minimum, and I > better get upgrade my hardware. Technically my motherboard should support > that (as a max) but I failed to boot the other day when trying to add > different-sized DIMM. I will track down two identical 1Gb DIMMs and put them > in. > > Reporting back later, > > Akira > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. > <phajdan...@chromium.org>wrote: > >> If you have less than 1 GB of RAM, I wouldn't even try to link the biggest >> binaries. 2 GB of RAM should be sufficient, although with 4 and more it's >> better. And you will notice the change after switching to gold. >> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 18:58, Adam Langley <a...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Akira <ak...@yayakoshi.net> wrote: >>> > I was building on Fedora 10 and was able to compile but the >>> > linking stage (see below) consumes more and more memory- the 500Mb of >>> > remaining memory, then another 1Gb of swap- before being killed. >>> >>> Are you using gold? >>> >>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxFasterBuilds#Linking_using_gold >>> >>> If not, that's the single biggest win for linking size and speed. I >>> know Evan builds on his laptop using gold, but I don't know the exact >>> specs. >>> >>> >>> AGL >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
