On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 05:36:36 +0000 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
Yes, that's right, 6GB for 1 gcc process! And I've seen gcc use 7GB!
gcc is fine as (ok this is what i was told 15 years ago) there's detection built-in to utilise available resident RAM, dynamically.
I've hit OOM with GCC 5 and 7, building Webkit with LTO (on 64-bit).
- Lauri