From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sphinx parallel build errors
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 15:40:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191009154050.502061fa@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc19a670-7e8e-04e5-667d-578c2dd3754e@infradead.org>
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 14:37:51 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-09 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 21:37 Sphinx parallel build errors Randy Dunlap
2019-10-09 21:40 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-10-09 22:18 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-10 2:30 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-10 3:00 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-10 18:48 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-10-10 20:15 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-27 18:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-27 18:17 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-10-27 18:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-27 19:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-27 19:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-28 19:07 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-29 8:16 ` Markus Heiser
2019-10-29 16:09 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-29 19:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-29 19:57 ` Markus Heiser
2019-10-29 20:10 ` Randy Dunlap
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