https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80826
--- Comment #1 from seanthesheep1 at hotmail dot com --- I had to stop the compilation as it was close to consuming 100% of the memory and making the box unusable: Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 6.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.0%id, 5.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 37043164k total, 36949996k used, 93168k free, 460k buffers Swap: 16450520k total, 16394764k used, 55756k free, 12308k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT SWAP RES CODE DATA SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11174 me 18 0 50.3g 15g 34g 6416 50g 9644 D 14.0 98.9 40:21.26 /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/cc1plus -quiet -D_GNU_SOURCE test.cpp -quiet -dumpbase test.cpp -mtune=generic -auxbase test -g -O1 -ftime-report -o /tmp/ccgPeF5L.s