On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 00:17 +0200, Gmane Admin wrote: > Hi, > Op 14-04-2021 om 06:59 schreef Richard Purdie: > > On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 21:14 -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote: > > > On 2021-04-11 12:19 p.m., Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > > > make already has -l option for limiting new instances if load average is > > > > too high, so it's only natural to add a RAM limiter too. > > > > > > > > -l [N], --load-average[=N], --max-load[=N] > > > > Don't start multiple jobs unless load is > > > > below N. > > > > > > > > In any case, patches welcome :) > > > > > > During today's Yocto technical call (1), > > > we talked about approaches to limiting the system load and avoiding > > > swap and/or OOM events. Here's what (little!) i recall from the > > > discussion, 9 busy hours later. > > > > > > In the short run, instead of independently maintaining changes to > > > configurations to limit parallelism or xz memory usage, etc, we > > > could develop an optional common include file where such limits > > > are shared across the community. > > I tried PARALLEL_MAKE_nodejs = "-j 1" from local.conf but that didn't work.
It would need to be: PARALLEL_MAKE_pn-nodejs = "-j 1" > So I watched it run for a while. It compiles with g++ and as at about > 0.5GB per thread, which is OK. In the end it does ld taking 4GB and it > tries to do 4 in parallel. And then swapping becomes so heavy the > desktop becomes unresponsive. Like I mentioned before ssh from another > machine allows me to STOP one of them, allowing the remaining to > complete. And then CONT the last one. > > I worked around it now, by creating a bbappend for nodejs with only > PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 2" > > If that works, the override above should also work. You do need the "pn-" prefix to the recipe name though. Cheers, Richard
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