Greetings!  Do you have a suggestion as to how to determine on 32bit
machines the total amount of heap (across all jobs) I might be able to
use for this build?

Take care,

Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> writes:

> Source: acl2
> Version: 8.1dfsg-2
> Severity: important
>
> acl2 version 8.1dfsg-2 contains the following change:
>
> | * Limit number of jobs on memory restricted machines
>
> This change looks wrong and causes the build time to increase quite a
> lot on 32-bit architectures, even if they have a lot of RAM. For example
> on a fast i386 build daemon the build time went from ~5h to ~19h, which
> is not acceptable.
>
> The code computing the max number of jobs wrongly assume that the RAM
> corresponds to what a process can allocate on the heap. This is not true
> for 32-bit architectures, which can allocate only 2, 3 or 4GB per
> process depending on the architecture.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr 
> (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
>
>

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Camm Maguire                                        c...@maguirefamily.org
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