From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26017D90D for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2019 21:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730955AbfJIVhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:37:53 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:49744 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728804AbfJIVhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:37:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Subject:From:Cc:To:Sender:Reply-To: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=MhyxE9zBIIhY8OiSfA4AvqqI7W7cYlVr3qfwPxHgOW8=; b=F9EWuJeTiYZA2rHH9YbjclEUF Q3IyphguSrQA1f31AZkJj1UXRVjclkntzyu3wbpr7CKL202hrtZiaF6uriusuK4iuymYvLTrE+quE UxgIb1Y/dpGH4UJMGdF8ki+33g6yF48kdODwvnIdIitrl9VjBCI0zFbkd+yzLalZ+j/PJ7YlIh2EG XytEOPwe0JdgIcLGJkNJunSqOA9i+0E29kFeAZYLf/mQGfanIG9/QMX0n2raourfDm4UjiuWEtULM JMCE4wo+E/H01lZ+Tixbu3J+k6wT07YtC7ezRzInuyLXbTcUFIxYN9wuQcNQ5Af21AqvIU9Mp4KD6 VdlmGyT1A==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::9ef4] by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.2 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1iIJeZ-0000RD-Sw; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:37:51 +0000 To: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kees Cook , Mauro Carvalho Chehab From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Sphinx parallel build errors Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 14:37:51 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org 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? thanks. -- ~Randy