Building nodejs with only 16GB RAM

Building nodejs with only 16GB RAM

[MOHAMMED HASSAN]

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Hi all,
I have to build nodejs which I noticed takes 32GB RAM. Unfortunately, I
only have 16GB and can't upgrade. So I want to know if I can increase the
processor cores and hopefully that might help. I am using the Lenovo
Thinkpad P15v laptop. Let me know if this can work or any one has tried it
here.

Thanks

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Re: [yocto] Building nodejs with only 16GB RAM

[Federico Pellegrin]

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Hi,
Increasing processor cores will usually make things *worse* as more
processes may be spawned at the same time and therefore more RAM used.

Instead you could try to reduce numer of parallel processes
(see BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE for example) albeit of course this
will make the compilation (even) slower.

Another possibility: create a swap file/partition on the system. Also this
will make things slower, but you will have "more RAM".

Cheers,
Federico



Il giorno ven 20 giu 2025 alle ore 06:34 MOHAMMED HASSAN via
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ha scritto:

> Hi all,
> I have to build nodejs which I noticed takes 32GB RAM. Unfortunately, I
> only have 16GB and can't upgrade. So I want to know if I can increase the
> processor cores and hopefully that might help. I am using the Lenovo
> Thinkpad P15v laptop. Let me know if this can work or any one has tried it
> here.
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [yocto] Building nodejs with only 16GB RAM

[MOHAMMED HASSAN]

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Hi Federico,
In notice that do_compile is the only task running and then it would fail.
Checking log errors on stack overflow indicate RAM needs to be increased.
Maybe I can build nodejs on my desktop and then move the sstate-cache, will
that work?


On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 10:11 AM, Federico Pellegrin <fede@evolware.org>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Increasing processor cores will usually make things *worse* as more
> processes may be spawned at the same time and therefore more RAM used.
>
> Instead you could try to reduce numer of parallel processes
> (see BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE for example) albeit of course this
> will make the compilation (even) slower.
>
> Another possibility: create a swap file/partition on the system. Also this
> will make things slower, but you will have "more RAM".
>
> Cheers,
> Federico
>
>
>
> Il giorno ven 20 giu 2025 alle ore 06:34 MOHAMMED HASSAN via
> lists.yoctoproject.org <hassanchattarki=gmail.com@lists.yoctoproject.org>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have to build nodejs which I noticed takes 32GB RAM. Unfortunately, I
>> only have 16GB and can't upgrade. So I want to know if I can increase the
>> processor cores and hopefully that might help. I am using the Lenovo
>> Thinkpad P15v laptop. Let me know if this can work or any one has tried it
>> here.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Re: [yocto] Building nodejs with only 16GB RAM

[Ashish Mishra]

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Hi Mohammed ,

I faced a similar issue while working with yocto scarthgap with 16GB RAM.

I tried to increase the swap area of my laptop & the build goes fine (takes
around 2 hour )
but the build goes fine .

Can you try to check by increasing the swap area.
   3   │ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/extraswap bs=8M count=1024
   4   │ sudo chmod 600 /extraswap
   5   │ sudo mkswap /extraswap
   6   │ sudo swapon /extraswap
   7   │ free -m

Thanks ,
Ashish




On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM MOHAMMED HASSAN via lists.yoctoproject.org
<hassanchattarki=gmail.com@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:

> Hi Federico,
> In notice that do_compile is the only task running and then it would fail.
> Checking log errors on stack overflow indicate RAM needs to be increased.
> Maybe I can build nodejs on my desktop and then move the sstate-cache,
> will that work?
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 10:11 AM, Federico Pellegrin <fede@evolware.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> Increasing processor cores will usually make things *worse* as more
>> processes may be spawned at the same time and therefore more RAM used.
>>
>> Instead you could try to reduce numer of parallel processes
>> (see BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE for example) albeit of course this
>> will make the compilation (even) slower.
>>
>> Another possibility: create a swap file/partition on the system. Also
>> this will make things slower, but you will have "more RAM".
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Federico
>>
>>
>>
>> Il giorno ven 20 giu 2025 alle ore 06:34 MOHAMMED HASSAN via
>> lists.yoctoproject.org <hassanchattarki=gmail.com@lists.yoctoproject.org>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have to build nodejs which I noticed takes 32GB RAM. Unfortunately, I
>>> only have 16GB and can't upgrade. So I want to know if I can increase the
>>> processor cores and hopefully that might help. I am using the Lenovo
>>> Thinkpad P15v laptop. Let me know if this can work or any one has tried it
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [yocto] Building nodejs with only 16GB RAM

[MOHAMMED HASSAN]

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Tried and it worked for yocto 3 sdk. Had around 22gb ram allocated in vm
ubuntu.

Thanks

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 10:58 AM, Ashish Mishra <ashishm@mvista.com> wrote:

> Hi Mohammed ,
>
> I faced a similar issue while working with yocto scarthgap with 16GB RAM.
>
> I tried to increase the swap area of my laptop & the build goes fine
> (takes around 2 hour )
> but the build goes fine .
>
> Can you try to check by increasing the swap area.
>    3   │ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/extraswap bs=8M count=1024
>    4   │ sudo chmod 600 /extraswap
>    5   │ sudo mkswap /extraswap
>    6   │ sudo swapon /extraswap
>    7   │ free -m
>
> Thanks ,
> Ashish
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM MOHAMMED HASSAN via
> lists.yoctoproject.org <hassanchattarki=gmail.com@lists.yoctoproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Federico,
>> In notice that do_compile is the only task running and then it would
>> fail. Checking log errors on stack overflow indicate RAM needs to be
>> increased.
>> Maybe I can build nodejs on my desktop and then move the sstate-cache,
>> will that work?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 10:11 AM, Federico Pellegrin <fede@evolware.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Increasing processor cores will usually make things *worse* as more
>>> processes may be spawned at the same time and therefore more RAM used.
>>>
>>> Instead you could try to reduce numer of parallel processes
>>> (see BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE for example) albeit of course this
>>> will make the compilation (even) slower.
>>>
>>> Another possibility: create a swap file/partition on the system. Also
>>> this will make things slower, but you will have "more RAM".
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Federico
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno ven 20 giu 2025 alle ore 06:34 MOHAMMED HASSAN via
>>> lists.yoctoproject.org <hassanchattarki=gmail.com@lists.yoctoproject.org>
>>> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I have to build nodejs which I noticed takes 32GB RAM. Unfortunately, I
>>>> only have 16GB and can't upgrade. So I want to know if I can increase the
>>>> processor cores and hopefully that might help. I am using the Lenovo
>>>> Thinkpad P15v laptop. Let me know if this can work or any one has tried it
>>>> here.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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