On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 13:22 (-0700), Rich Shepard wrote: > CAUTION: This email comes from outside Acadia. Verify the sender and use > caution with any requests, links or attachments.
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, Jim Diamond via SlackBuilds-users wrote: >> For what it's worth... I'm compiling it right now on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) >> CPU E3-1270 v5 @ 3.60GHz system (4 hyperthreaded cores) with 16 GB of RAM. >> It has finally gotten to the ld stage, and so far it has used 25 minutes >> of CPU time, and has a RRS of 1701376 (so less than 2 GB). So I doubt you >> really need more than 32 GB of RAM, unless you have some major memory hogs >> on your system. > Jim, > I decided to max out the memory on the Asus motherboard because I run large > statistical and spatial models and the Ryzen7 2700 has 8 cores and 16 > threads so I'll have sufficient capacity for everything. Hi Rich, when I said I doubt you need more than 32 GB, I was talking about compiling Qt, not about your general usage of the machine. Following this exchange: On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:16 (-0700), Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, B Watson wrote: >> That looks like it was a huge link. Taking more than an hour is normal, >> especially if it's having to use swap. > B. > I've 32G memory here and little else running. >> Before you killed it, did you check CPU usage (e.g. with "top")? It >> should have been pegging one core at 100%. > Yes, I looked at top and didn't see sbopkg or any process that looked > relevant in the half-minute or so I watched; didn't specifically look for > memory use. >> More patience. And/or more RAM, if you can. Cheers. Jim _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/