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and picks up where it left off.. On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Mark Brown <mkbrow...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Again, how is the Bitbake module terminated and then re-run, > picking up its place in the sequence of tasks where it left off ? > > > > ------------------------------ > Subject: Re: [yocto] Controlling Bitbake Memory usage under > Windows/Virtualbox/Ubuntu platform > From: opensou...@keylevel.com > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 22:38:41 +0000 > CC: yocto@yoctoproject.org > To: mkbrow...@hotmail.com > > > On 6 Mar 2016, at 22:08, Mark Brown <mkbrow...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I do not see anything in the Bitbake manual for controlling how much memory > Bitbake should consider itself entitled to consume in the > development platform within which it runs. > > Running it on //Windows 7 64//i7-2620M//Virtualbox//Ubuntu 14 32-bit//, > I told Virtualbox to allow Ubuntu to use 1.5 GBytes, but Windows Task > Manager > indicates the whole Virtualbox/Ubuntu thread is using only 160 MBytes > -- and is generating approximately 1,000 page faults per second. > > > What memory usage does the Ubuntu VM report? > > Perhaps as a result, this Gumstix Overo build has completed only 760 out > of 3792 > total tasks in 21 hours -- at this rate it will complete in 5-6 days. > > > Not used a VM to build in ages, but I used to build an image from scratch > in about 10 hours running on a dual core Macbook Pro. The same build takes > about 1 hour on an 8 thread i7 with 16GB RAM and SSDs for the build work > area, peaking at about 10GB RAM usage with local.conf set to use 16 threads > and 16 parallel makes (BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE both at 16) - > later Yocto versions set these for you based on the number of cores > available to the build host. > > Another thing to consider - if this is the first build, then you’ll be > downloading a load of stuff from the internet. How fast is your connection? > Subsequent builds will be much quicker as the files required will then be > stored locally. > > How does the user terminate Bitbake at its current stage, increase the > memory it is using, > and then restart in order to speed up this process ? > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > > -- > > Chris Tapp > opensou...@keylevel.com > www.keylevel.com > > ---- > You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap! > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > >
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