On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to compile GCC on a remote system with 192MB RAM. It's > completed successfully before but now it uses up all RAM. The compile > doesn't stop but it must be thrashing. I have MAKEOPTS="-j1" in > /etc/make.conf. Am I jeopardizing my HD by letting it swap on the > compile right now? I've ordered an upgrade to the max of 512MB. I've > stopped all processes using up memory that I don't need including X. > Is there anything else I can do to get through the compile with 192MB > RAM?
Use -O0. Don't enable debugging. I think GCC has some switches to control memory usage/heap limits. You might want to try those and set them to something low like 16MB, it probably uses as much as it can by default.
