On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mark Montague <markm...@umich.edu> wrote: > On March 24, 2010 14:53 , Karthik BP (via RT) > <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to build rel#27 on Ubuntu, with gcc4.4.1, libicu4.0.1 on my >> laptop having 512MB ram+750MB swap. The build seems to encounter a lot of >> memory thrashing. > > I encountered this problem some months back on a VM guest running Fedora 11. > Increasing the amount of RAM to 1024 MB solved the problem. As is true in > your case, Rakudo had previously built fine with only 512 MB RAM but over > time swapping during the build got so bad that the build would (effectively) > never complete. I strongly recommend increasing the amount of memory to > 1024 MB if you are going to build Rakudo; 512 MB is more than sufficient for > running it, however. > > -- > Mark Montague > markm...@umich.edu > > >
There were some parrot memory issues that were recently fixed; I'd recommend doing a build with a new parrot and trying again to see if that helps. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
