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Subject: Re: make -jN buildworld on < 512MB ram
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On 31 October 2012 13:41, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:

> Another, more involved, approach would be for the scheduler to manage
> groups of processes - if a group of processes is causing memory
> pressure as a whole then the scheduler just stops scheduling some of
> them until the pressure reduces (effectively swap them out).  (Yes,
> that's vague and lots of hand-waving that might not be realisable).

Well, does the compiler actually need that much memory? :)


Adrian