[OE-core] qemu needs > 2 GB of RAM to build?

[Scott Garman]

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

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center