Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r70499:69cafd5dfbfa Date: 2014-04-09 16:26 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/69cafd5dfbfa/
Log: Add a FAQ entry "translation swaps forever" diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst --- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst @@ -459,6 +459,19 @@ .. _`getting-started`: getting-started-python.html +------------------------------------------ +Compiling PyPy swaps or runs out of memory +------------------------------------------ + +This is documented (here__ and here__). It needs 4 GB of RAM to run +"rpython targetpypystandalone" on top of PyPy, a bit more when running +on CPython. If you have less than 4 GB it will just swap forever (or +fail if you don't have enough swap). On 32-bit, divide the numbers by +two. + +.. __: http://pypy.org/download.html#building-from-source +.. __: https://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting-started-python.html#translating-the-pypy-python-interpreter + .. _`how do I compile my own interpreters`: ------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
