Re: Sphinx parallel build errors

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 10/10/19 11:48 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:30:56 -0700
> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> That does seem like a likely culprit, doesn't it?  Watching a build here,
> though, I don't see that any one of the sphinx-build processes balloons to
> a horrific size, which is what I would expect if one file were causing the
> problem.
> 
> In general, the sphinx build doesn't really begin to approach the memory
> requirements of, say, firefox or my mail client on my system.
> 
> Randy, I'd be curious to know if you see the same behavior with current
> mainline.  Also, can you see how many sphinx-build processes you have
> running?

Yes, I see oom-kills when building docs for 5.4-rc2.
But only after I ran 'gimp *.jpg' for 22 photos.

I can see anywhere from 1 to 4 sphinx-build processes running.

> Thanks,
> 
> jon

-- 
~Randy