On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 14:37:51 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sphinx parallel build error: > OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory > > I have had this error 4 times in the last 3 days. > > The first time it oom-killed Thunderbird. No big deal. > The second time it oom-killed gimp, which had 24 photos open. > Still no big deal. Just a nuisance. > > My little laptop has only 8 GB of RAM. > > Is there a way that I can limit the amount of parallelism? Is this a change with current docs-next, or have you seen this for a while? The parallelism logic changed a bit in docs-next, but the default behavior should be the same as it was before. "make -j 1 htmldocs" (in current docs-next) should give you a nice, slow, serial build. jon
