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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sphinx parallel build errors
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:30:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201910091929.0C058BB@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc19a670-7e8e-04e5-667d-578c2dd3754e@infradead.org>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  2:32 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
2019-10-09 22:18   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-10  2:30 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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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