On 10/9/19 2:40 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 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. I'm not sure. Today's 3 instances were all in linux-next but I don't know about the oom failure a few days ago. > "make -j 1 htmldocs" (in current docs-next) should give you a nice, slow, > serial build. I don't want to limit is _that much_. :( -- ~Randy
