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

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Scott Garman <scott.a.garman at intel.com> 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.
>

what distro are you running on guest ? it could be something wrong
with the distro gcc or system

> 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?

I have not seen such an error on a system which has 2G RAM all builds
qemu-native fine here

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