On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 02:37:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap 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. Eek, sorry! OOM-killer once again chooses ... not the culprit. ;) > My little laptop has only 8 GB of RAM. > > Is there a way that I can limit the amount of parallelism? As mentioned, "make -jN htmldocs" should be respected now (before it was as many CPUs as it had). I'm wondering if it's actually the addition of the MAINTAINERS file parsing -- that's a really big parse and maybe that pushed things over the edge? -- Kees Cook
