Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:51:49PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >> For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux >> because the source unpacking process runs out of memory. > > I believe if we limit the unpacking process to not more than 8 cores we > can avoid that problem.
Also, this is very much a defect of xz; on ‘core-updates’, ‘patch-and-repack’ uses zstd, which is much less memory-hungry and more predictable. Ludo’.
