On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:29:38PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:00:09PM -0600, Mátyás Selmeci wrote: > > > This may be a stupid question, but can you solve this by putting > > more swap on those builders? > > It depends. If the system is sufficiently resource constrained that > malloc() is actually telling you that you're not going to the moon, more > RAM will help. But what's more likely is that it's running out of > process address space - a 32 bit process can only address 3GB of address > space (which isn't necessarily all RAM), no matter how much RAM is > available[1]. Adding more RAM isn't going to help there. Getting rid of > 32-bit build systems is. > > [1] On x86, anyway. I don't know what the ARM VM split is. 3G/1G on my ARM 32 bit test system, same as x86. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
