From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.insigma.com.cn ([115.236.48.170] helo=WX-Edge.insigma.com.cn) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RSIHT-000583-4c for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:02:43 +0100 Received: from WX-ExchMB.insigma.com.cn (10.0.1.203) by WX-Edge.insigma.com.cn (10.0.1.205) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.436.0; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:56:11 +0800 Received: from [192.168.0.98] (122.224.76.38) by WX-ExchMB.insigma.com.cn (10.0.1.203) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.240.5; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:56:09 +0800 Message-ID: <1321836895.1264.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Ni Qingliang To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:54:55 +0800 In-Reply-To: <4EC6B45A.9060107@intel.com> References: <4EC6B45A.9060107@intel.com> Organization: Insigma X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: qemu needs > 2 GB of RAM to build? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: niqingliang@insigma.com.cn, Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:02:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have encountered the same problem on archlinux in VM. after googled it, maybe it is GCC's defect On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 03:39 +0800, Scott Garman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm testing building core-image-minimal in a resource-constrained > environment (a VirtualBox VM with 2300 MB of RAM allocated to it). With > PARALLEL_MAKE set to -j4 (the VM does have two CPUs allocated), I'm > finding that the build of qemu-native fails because the OOM killer steps > in and kills gcc. This is happening during the linking phase of building > qemu. > > If this is true, I assume it would pretty much mean that no one can > build our images without more than 2 GB of RAM. Is this true? Is this > something for us to be concerned about? > > Scott > > -- > Scott Garman > Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project > Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Yi Qingliang niqingliang@insigma.com.cn https://niqingliang2003.wordpress.com