Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:41:17 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Building RELENG_9 (or RELENG_9_*) on a small machine? Message-ID: <512EB5BD.1020803@bluerosetech.com>
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So I have this VM which only has 256 MB of memory and 9.1-R installed. I want to update it to RELENG_9, but buildworld swaps so bad it grinds nearly to a halt. Even make -j1 -B runs into very heavy swapping. So two questions: 1. Is there anything I can do to set a limit on how much memory the compiler uses? 2. If I crossbuild for this machine, can I get away with doing buildworld on a buildbox, ship the obj tree, and do installworld and mergemaster on the VM? It's been a few enternities since I did a cross build and back then it was crossbuilding releases.
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