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

[Ni Qingliang]

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